We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...

An Open Day organised by the Portimão Museum will allow history buffs to discover archaeological remains in the Gruta da ...

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago across ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

Neanderthals have had a tough time of it. Early humans played a role in their extinction, but the story didn’t end there.

Even by the usual standards of stargazing, it is a rare opportunity. But anyone studying the horizon just after sunset in the coming days is in with a chance of spotting a comet last seen when ...

A new DNA analysis of a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin is making experts rethink what they know about early humans. In 2015, researchers discovered the remains of the short-statured Thorin in a cave ...