A chamber sealed off from the world for roughly 40,000 years has been pried open on the edge of Europe, and with it a rare, ...

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Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton. Scientists have ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...