Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

A boy who found a shiny rock while playing at a beach has been told the item is a Neanderthal hand axe that could be 60,000 ...

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

Learn how early humans employed specialized fire pits to create resins needed to attach stone tool parts to wooden shafts.

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

Researchers suggest they may have been collected by Neanderthal children, drawn to their striking shapes and patterns. “These ...

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

Footage from Manchester shows a man hanging around at at stopping on Princess Parkway apparently intending to beg for money ...

Nonetheless, the study authors state that “recent work has continued to provide new insights into the history of gene flow between modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans and has clearly ...

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 ...

So who were the Denisovans, where did they live, and why are they important to the story of humanity? Around 600,000 years ...

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