Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Fascism, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “a governmental system marked by a centralized dictatorship, stringent socioeconomic controls, and often belligerent nationalism”. Sounds like the ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, analyzed artifacts from the Lower Paleolithic ...

Bob Mould has established himself as one of the most versatile voices in American punk rock. Now on the cusp of 65, the ...

In one example, a study published last year found that people with Neanderthal DNA are more sensitive to certain types of pain. Does the Natural History Museum’s Neanderthal man look familiar?

‘Dire wolf’ puppies Romulus and Remus napping on the Iron Throne (Picture: Colossal/Cover Images) A huge wolf lost for 10,000 years really has been brought back from the dead and will be ...

Nhlamulo “Nota” Baloyi has seemingly rescinded an apology to white South Africans, which he was ordered to do during an episode of the podcast The Hustler’s Corner. However, the ...

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