The 2026 field season at Prado Vargas Cave, located in the village of Cornejo in the northern province of Burgos, Spain, ...

Homo sapiens may be the reigning champion of modern humanity, but when it comes to the European continent, we were far from the first on the scene. Neanderthals had already called Europe home long ...

Learn how animal bones and stone tools are helping archaeologists reconstruct Neanderthal camp life in northern Spain.

A new study found Neanderthals had wider, sturdier heel bones, while modern footwear and sedentary life may have made our ...

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of ...

Neanderthal pelvis bones kept an older design, while the modern male pelvis became a shock absorber that returns energy at ...

The anatomical structure of the pelvis of male Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) had more similarities with the hips of modern women than men. This was reported on August 18 in the journal Popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, ...

Life appearance reconstruction of a Neanderthal male at the Natural History Museum of London.Credit: Photo: Allan Henderson under CC BY 2.0 Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound and ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences exploring the complex ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes DNA studies suggest that ...