Ancient footprints found near the shores of Portugal's Algarve region are giving us fresh insights into the lives of ...

Researchers have uncovered the first Neanderthal footprints in Portugal, offering rare insight into how early humans lived in ...

Animal footprints were also uncovered, including from deer, which suggests that Neanderthals used the area for hunting.

A fossilized Neanderthal footprint found at the Le Rozel site in Normandy, France. Image: (Dominique Cliquet) Scientists in France have discovered hundreds of fossilized footprints belonging to a ...

A group of Neanderthal children scampered around the Normandy coast in France 80,000 years ago. Their footprints quickly became covered by windblown sand, preserved as ghostly signs of their passage.

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at ...

The team’s findings are published in Scientific Reports. They come on the heels of the 2019 discovery of 80,000-year-old Neanderthal footprints on a beach near Le Rozel, France. The newly ...

Footprints preserved in 345,000-year-old volcanic rocks suggest that a group of Neanderthals climbed an active volcano.

The 80,000-year-old footprints, found in five layers of sediment in a creek bed in northwestern France, are thought to have been left by Neanderthals, since they are the only hominins known to ...

R esearchers have found 257 Neanderthal footprints over a period of five years at the Le Rozel archaeological site in Manche, France. The footprints were made in soft, sandy ground approximately ...

Instead, the footprints most likely belong to an evolutionary relative of ours: Homo heidelbergensis, the species that gave rise to Neanderthals around 400,000 years ago.