A surprising discovery in a Spanish cave reveals that Neanderthal children may have had a passion for collecting.

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Birch tar, a sticky, dark substance, served as a powerful adhesive, allowing the Neanderthals to craft tools and weapons with ...

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago which had large heads and immense teeth.

This evidence of “earlier collectors” was found in the Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain. Researchers claimed that ...

All cultures, however primitive, have used glues, resins and pitches obtained from various plants for their mechanical or ...

Previous research shows Neanderthals engaged in cultural rituals such as ornamental crafting, cave wall art, and even ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than ...

The sticky tar helped Neanderthals produce glue to make weapons and tools. The so-called factory — a carefully designed ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.&nbs ...

Cut into a Gibraltar cliff face overlooking the Alboran Sea, a cave opening leads back in time to one of the earliest ...