Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Two weeks’ walk can be an eternity in prehistory. In southern France’s Rhône Valley, a Neanderthal by the name of “Thorin” ...

Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony ...

Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of ...

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

There are many creatures that have become extinct over the years, and one of these species was the Neanderthals. However, ...

The first complete genetic portrait of a so‑called “last Neanderthal” is forcing scientists to redraw the map of our origins, ...