When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of ...

A fossil fragment from Spain suggests a Neanderthal child may have had Down syndrome and survived for years despite severe ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

A small bone fragment from Denisova Cave revealed a 13-year-old girl with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. This ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Researchers found the oldest signs of cave art lining the rock walls of Indonesia’s island of Sulawesi. The stenciled ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

65,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘tar factory’ found in Gibraltar cave A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Vanguard Cave, ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

PARIS — A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.