The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

When modern humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they crossed paths with Neanderthals. Over thousands ...

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

Ancient human ancestors ate small children 850,000 years ago, a gruesome discovery suggests. Archaeologists working at the ...

Human ancestors ate small children 850,000 years ago, a gruesome discovery has suggesed. Archaeologists were working at the ...

Just before the first COVID lockdown in March 2020, Carlos Neto de Carvalho and his wife, Yilu Zhang, were walking along ...

Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed ...

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