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A fossilized ear bone is providing evidence that a Neanderthal child with Down syndrome lived to be at least 6-years-old and was cared for by others. The remains of the child, who researchers named ...

What killed off the Neanderthals? Many theories have been floated, from climate change and disease to being outcompeted and ...

A fossil of the inner ear of a six-year-old Neanderthal child that showed signs of Down syndrome seems to indicate that the ancient, now-extinct species were compassionate caregivers, according to a ...

A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by a team of researchers led by Tjaark ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have analysed bones found in a Belgian cave where cannibalism was known to have ...

(CNN) — A fossilized ear bone unearthed in a cave in Spain has revealed a Neanderthal child who lived with Down syndrome until the age of 6, according to a new study. The find suggested that members ...