New theories suggest that a powerful cosmic ray storm from deep space may have triggered Earth’s last Ice Age, altering climate patterns and cooling the planet dramatically—offering a chilling twist ...

“It was very cold in Europe at the time, a very arctic ambiance,” says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak, lead study author and author of The Naked Neanderthal. And Europe would have been filled with ice ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

Scientists have uncovered Neanderthal tools in a place we thought Neanderthals never went to. Learn what might explain this ...

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ...

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

The male Neanderthal lived 35,000 to 45,000 years ... “Someone in the last Ice Age,” Solecki wrote, “must have ranged the mountainside in the mournful task of collecting flowers for the ...

Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire ... Feb. 25, 2025 — A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf ...

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal ... at the age of 56 ...