The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes still live in us today. Neanderthals were ...

The discovery edges back the foundation of dentistry by at least 40,000 years ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

For years, the standard story went like this: a single band of modern humans walked out of Africa roughly 60,000 years ago, bumped into Neanderthals somewhere in the Middle East, interbred briefly, ...

With Oklahoma's ban on marriages under 18, children will learn for themselves that “some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” ...

As the nightmare of Alligator Alcatraz appears to be coming to an end, this should be considered one of the biggest frauds ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and woo ...

For thousands of years, our understanding of Neanderthals painted them as brute-force hunters, powerful, relentless, and single-mindedly carnivorous. They chased mammoths across frozen plains, brought ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Neanderthals and modern humans have differently shaped skulls, which scientists have long assumed meant they also had different brains. But new research challenges that assumption. Mike Kemp / In ...

No one likes having their teeth drilled at the dentist. But hey, it could be worse. You could be a Neanderthal performing surgery on your own rotting molar with nothing but a shard of rock. That’s the ...