The remains of a mammoth and other artefacts which inspired a David Attenborough documentary are on display at a ...

AquilaGib (Stewart Finlayson, Gibraltar Museum) licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons The typical image of Neanderthals is of highly carnivorous, ice-age hunters and scavengers who ate ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...

He is based on 40,000-year-old Homo neanderthalensis remains found at Spy in Belgium. Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... E. & Hublin, J. Dental remains from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Journal of Human Evolution 50, 485-508 (2006).

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

The early modern skull and jawbone (above, at right) come from Cro-Magnon I, one of several individuals whose remains turned up in a rockshelter in the Dordogne in 1868. The Neanderthal is 47,000 ...

When Neanderthals were first discovered in the first half of the 19th century (first a baby skull was discovered in a Belgian cave in 1829, and then more remains were discovered in Gibraltar in ...

How these Neanderthal genes became prominent in the human genome remains to be uncovered. Capellini speculates that the variants could have been beneficial in the past, and therefore, selective ...

This 230,000 year old stone tool was made by an early Neanderthal.This handaxe is one of a thousand stone tools found with early Neanderthal remains in excavations at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire.