Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...

When modern humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they crossed paths with Neanderthals. Over thousands of years, interbreeding between these two groups led to genetic exchanges ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

A new study has found that a gene variant inherited from Neanderthals still affects the muscles of some people living ...

Neanderthals in two Israeli caves used distinct meat-cutting methods, hinting at cultural food traditions passed down through ...

Neanderthals living in Israel some 70,000 years ago butchered prey in markedly different ways, suggesting they had dinner preferences ...

For Neanderthal hunters equipped with wood and stone hunting tools, the place was a veritable buffet. And you might expect ...

New research reveals Neanderthals had varying food preferences and spiced up their diets by using different food preparation ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct ...

Neighboring Neanderthal communities living in the Middle East some 60,000 years ago appear to have developed distinct butchering practices, suggesting that different families may have had their own ...