Researchers discovered a new mammoth graveyard in Britain
A group of researchers has unearthed a massive mammoth graveyard in southwest England. The diggers have found the bones of five mammoths so far. They …
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Neanderthal kids were just as obnoxious as human children
Neanderthals don’t exist anymore, and while there is a lot of debate over how they died out and what role our species of human ancestors …
Some human brain tissue holds traces of Neanderthal DNA
Neanderthals mixed with humans a long time ago, but after they died out their DNA lived on in a large segment of the human population. …
Neanderthals had to deal with an ear problem we still struggle with today
You might not think we have much in common with a race of ancient people that died out tens of thousands of years ago, but …
Ancient humans may have been better at breathing than we are today
It might be tempting to imagine our ancient ancestors as simply less sophisticated versions of ourselves, but scientists know that there are some very big …
Freezing temperatures likely contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals
The amount of information we have about the human family tree is steadily growing, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions. One of the …
