In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete ...

Quince años después del descubrimiento de un nuevo tipo de humano, los científicos hallaron su ADN en un cráneo fosilizado. ¿La clave? La placa dental. By Carl Zimmer Fifteen years after the discovery ...

Scientists studying ancient disease have uncovered one of the earliest examples of spillover -- when a disease jumps from an animal to a human -- and it happened to a Neanderthal man who likely got ...

The so-called "Viking disease" causes the fingers of many aging northern European men to lock up in a bent position, and researchers now think they know why. Genetic variants inherited from ...

Neanderthals, an early species of human, interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans more often and more recently than previously thought, a study published Monday in Nature found. The research ...

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a human face. This is the scenario presented by archaeologists in a paper ...

Neanderthal ex machina -- Mummies and molecules -- Amplifying the past -- Dinosaurs in the lab -- Human frustrations -- A Croatian connection -- A new home -- Multiregional controversies -- Nuclear ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

For the first time, scientists have firmly established that Neanderthals lived in Western Europe as recently as 36,000 years ago, several thousand years after the first modern humans are believed to ...