The director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E has made an ambitious yet entirely baffling mess with the help of Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Discover why the human chin evolution mystery still puzzles scientists. Explore fossil evidence, theories, and expert insights. Read now.

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered an odd collection of animal bones that may point to evidence of an ancient ...

New discoveries are rewriting human evolution faster than ever before. From Denisovan–Neanderthal hybrids to 175,000-year-old underground structures built without sunlight, the old “caveman” ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered mysterious collections of animal skulls in a Neanderthal cave, raising new questions about their rituals and symbolic practices.

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“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

Neanderthals appear to have carried them into the cave in separate visits. The time period, researchers think, is possibly ...