Fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco date to roughly 300,000 years ago and are among the oldest remains attributed to Homo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An AI-reconstructed image, created at Tel Aviv University, shows a mixed Neanderthal–Homo Sapiens family. Image ...

A small team of archaeologists, two from Germany, one from Denmark and another from Iran, has identified a potential region for interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens during the Late ...

Archaeologists uncover thousands of ancient tools and bones at a 46,000-year-old Neanderthal camp in northern Spain.

Neanderthal teeth study overturns 17-year-old cannibal case: child remains from Les Rois Cave in France, once cited as proof ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

At the Molodova site in Ukraine, archaeologists found a ring of deliberately selected mammoth bones dating to around 44,000 years ago alongside Mousterian tools, hearths, butchered animal remains, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A girl looks through the replica of a neanderthal skull displayed in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town ...

Long held in a private collection, the newly analyzed tooth of an approximately nine-year-old Neanderthal child marks the hominin's southernmost known range. Analysis of the associated archaeological ...

Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner can’t articulate the excitement he felt when his team unearthed ancient human fossils at an open-air excavation site in Nesher Ramla, Israel. The region had been known for ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...