They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting. Researchers have unearthed a collection of 15 marine fossils, which seem to be ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. Homo erectus H. sapiens ...

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 ...

"The unique site at Abric Pizarro gives a glimpse of Neanderthal behaviour in a landscape they had been roaming for hundreds of thousands of years," Dr Samper Carro said. "Neanderthals disappeared ...

Archaeologists have uncovered intriguing similarities between the behavior of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, one of our closest extinct relatives. In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological ...

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

A popular TikTok influencer reacted to videos of nudity that have surfaced from Pride events, blasting them as inappropriate and unrepresentative of the LGBTQ community. Instagram model AJ Sanchez ...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday sought to clarify a remark by President Joe Biden suggesting leaders in states including Texas and Mississippi were engaged in “neanderthal thinking” ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...