Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

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They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called ...

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...