Researchers have found Neanderthal footprints that date back approximately 78,000 years on the shores of Monte Clérigo Beach, ...

A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.

The oldest-known hominin track sites found in southwest Europe provide clues to the hunting patterns of Neanderthals. Experts ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal ...

And what were these Neanderthal children doing at the time these footprints were placed? Playing on the shore, being kids.

Long written off as bear tracks, prints at a site in Tanzania suggest early humans walked on two feet in surprisingly diverse ways. But questions abound.

But it does tell us, then, of course, that this is something that actually came into the human population about 45,000 years or 47,000 years ago, when modern humans and Neanderthals admixed.

From Chimps Eating Medicinal Plants to Footprints Tracking Our Early Relatives, Here Are the Most Significant Human Evolution Discoveries of 2024 Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period, which is ...

WASHINGTON — Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors 5 million years ago.

While it’s the first time that footprints have suggested hominins of two species directly encountered one another, genetic evidence has revealed that Neanderthals interbred with Homo sapiens and ...