This October, Earth will witness a visitor from the deep past: Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas, a cosmic traveler last seen ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from ...

with changes in genes indicating a replacement by new populations of Neanderthal as drastic climate warming changed environmental conditions after the previous ice age and drove other lineages to ...

anatomically modern humans — such as the leather outfit of 5,000-year-old Ötzi the Ice Man — no one has found similar evidence at Neanderthal sites. But there is circumstantial evidence ...

Because of how different his DNA was from Neanderthals closer to his age, the researchers realized that Thorin must have belonged to a completely new Neanderthal lineage. They estimated his ...

A Neanderthal in Europe 105,000 years ago would have a enjoyed a much warmer climate than one living 45,000 years ago during the Ice Age. “We worked for seven years to find out who was wrong ...

Analysing isotopes from Thorin's bones and teeth showed that he lived in an extremely cold climate, which matched an ice age only experienced by later Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago.

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals ...

Your support makes all the difference. A comet that was last viewed by the Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago could be seen tonight, with astronomers calling it the “comet of the ...

If you've ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known that humans carry ...