In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

It is impressive how Generative AI can conjure a “day in the life” image of a Neanderthal in seconds. But a new study suggests those scenes often come with a dash of built-in time travel. Researchers ...

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Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...