A chemical signature in Neanderthal remains that suggests voracious meat eating has long puzzled researchers. Now, new ...

Archaeologists in Spain have found proof that ancient humans ate small children 850,000 years ago. The gruesome discovery was made at the Gran Dolina cave site in Atapuerca, northern Spain, where they ...

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

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

Over the years, the fossils found here were generally thought to belong to Homo sapiens, with some even speculating that the ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...

Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of ...

A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.

Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species ...

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

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 ...