Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

From silent, unexplained sounds resonating across the globe to the strange energy density of empty space, these 13 bizarre mysteries continue to baffle researchers in 2026, proving that the more we ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Baked soil, ancient tools and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the earliest evidence of this skill found so far.

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat domestication and dispersal into Europe and beyond, aside from the common ...

Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had brown hair and brown eyes, and lived in what is now Estonia. That’s the ...

Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in ...