During the Stone Age, which started roughly 3.3 million years ago and ended around 8700 and 2000 BC, many scientists have speculated about the possibility that Neanderthals, modern humans and mammoths ...

Ancient footprints found near the shores of Portugal's Algarve region are giving us fresh insights into the lives of coastal-dwelling Neanderthals. An international study led by Carlos Neto de ...

Neanderthals used advanced hunting techniques to kill prey, a new study says. Prehistoric deer bones show animals were killed with sharp wooden spears. Scientists say the stabs were from below, ...

In 1948, a group of amateurs led by a local headmaster in Lehringen, Germany, uncovered the skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant—the largest land mammal known to have roamed Europe—in ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, teamwork and a calculated kill. By Franz Lidz When a 125,000-year-old elephant ...

In the backrooms of the sleek, modern Schöningen Research Museum in Germany, there are piles of old, mismatched cardboard boxes everywhere. These are the finds boxes from Lehringen, a hamlet 150 ...