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An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

Neanderthals have long been portrayed as cold-adapted Ice Age specialists, their broad faces and big noses cast as natural ...

Kissing has long presented an evolutionary puzzle to scientists as it appears to carry high risks such as disease ...

A metal that still frequently occurs today and is considered dangerous may have had a severely harmful effect on the health ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may have finally been solved, and it's all thanks to an ancient, exceptionally ...

Thought to be between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, the Altamura Man can’t be extracted from the cave as it is embedded in rock and covered in concretions called calcite popcorn coralloids, yet Buzi ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, ...

Here’s how it works. A Neanderthal skull was discovered in a cave in Altamura, Italy, in 1993. (Image credit: Constantino Buzi/IPHES-CERCA) A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on ...

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...