Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left ...

Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

The history you learned, that "Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago," may actually be a statistical illusion.It is true ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were remarkably diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...

Scientists found evidence that our ancient relatives butchered beavers and marmots for food roughly 130,000 years ago. Yes, actual beavers.

Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.

Neanderthals ran a factory before we even showed up? Turns out these ancient humans were master craftsmen with skills that'll ...

It took a while, but researchers believe they now have a molecular marker to reliably spot Denisovan fossils. Compared with ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

Ever since the discovery of the first named Neanderthal fossils in 1856, scientists have struggled to make sense of them in ...