Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

Life demanded attention to every detail—tracking, hunting, crafting, and planning. These folks adapted naturally, relying on ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, ...

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may have enabled movement between Ayvalık and Europe. Continuous stretches of ...

Long baleen whale mothers are more likely to have female calves than males, according to a new study led by the University of ...

Genetic and fossil evidence shows that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans interbred multiple times between 40,000 and 20,000 years ago. Hybrids like the Denisovan-Neanderthal girl “Denny” ...

Nearly 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals had already figured out how to hunt mountain goats along vertical cliffs and process them in well-organised camps. Known for ambushing large animals in Western ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

Neanderthals were long stereotyped as primitive and dim-witted, but science has corrected that misconception, showing them as intelligent, cultural and connected to modern humans. This illustrates how ...