An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated with tool-making by Neanderthals, possesses antibacterial properties that could ...

(CNN) — Neanderthals may not have been that different from us, after all. New evidence reveals that they created the world's oldest known cave paintings and even wore seashells as body ornaments. Both ...

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial properties, raising the possibility that this sticky substance served a dual ...

During the Ice Age, massive elephants once roamed across Europe—and new research shows they traveled surprisingly long ...

Neanderthals systematically boiled animal bones to extract fat and grease at an industrial scale 125,000 years ago, according to a new study that reframes long-standing assumptions about their dietary ...

Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of Neanderthal bones in northern EU.

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

Scientists discovered a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany where thousands of animal bones were crushed to extract fat, revealing surprisingly advanced survival strategies.

Researchers propose migration and social behaviors may explain this pattern in early human-Neanderthal interactions Modern humans of European and Asian ancestry still carry up to 2% Neanderthal DNA ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...