An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Neanderthals were very muscular and rugged, with large bodies and even larger heads. Their skulls show that they have room for a bigger brain than modern humans and would have been distinguished by a ...

MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

A groundbreaking study has resolved the mystery surrounding the “Dragon Man” skull, one of the most significant fossil ...

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...