The remains this model is based on were found, in 1823, smeared with this naturally occurring iron oxide pigment and buried with periwinkle shells and fragments of ivory rods and rings. The ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about 6-9 percent Neanderthal DNA, the study reports. Some of this DNA was contained in three relatively large ...

Persistent infections, meaning diseases that don’t immediately kill you but instead slowly chip away at your body ... of Neanderthals and still detect the viruses that were present. Briones downloaded ...

However, we've never actually found Neanderthal clothing or clothing ... which also increased the amount of body heat ...

Around 40,000 years ago, modern humans made their way into Europe, sweeping through the continent and, eventually, driving to extinction our close relatives, the Neanderthals. Exactly how that ...

Reconstructing the thoracic morphology of Neanderthals was challenging due to the fragility of ribs, which are rarely found intact ... to have helped retain body heat, a crucial adaptation ...

At the site of Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, a small assemblage of mollusks was found, in addition to a few marine mammal bones (monk seal and dolphin) with cut-marks, indicating that Neanderthals ...

While that’s still quite a bit less than the 50-plus megabases of Neanderthal DNA found in the genomes of modern Eurasians, it’s more than some scientists expected—and quite a bit more than the zero ...

Only a handful of Neanderthal tools bear signs of adhesive, but experts say the process could have been widespread. The tool, found in the Netherlands, has spent the last 50,000 years under the ...