A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that lived together roughly 100,000 years ago.

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Your stereotypical leering barbarian chief has access to mass-produced food for his harem of abducted princesses and their children, whether it be access to farmland, a flock of livestock, and/or ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) shared the Earth for thousands of years, walking the same landscapes ...

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence ...

For a long time, Neanderthals have intrigued both scientists and historians. They were not mere primitive cavemen walking ...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone? While there's plenty of evidence ...

The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or the postpartum period, doctors propose in a new study ...

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