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Bone fragments discovered in Ilsenhohle cave in central Germany have rewritten the early history of Homo sapiens in Europe. The findings, detailed in studies published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution, reveal that our species ventured into colder European latitudes over 45,000 years ago, challenging previous timelines.

Ancient bones found in a cave in northern Germany prove what scientists have long suspected: Humans and our Neanderthal cousins lived alongside each other for thousands of years in northern Europe. That is according to a groundbreaking trio of papers from Nature and Nature Ecology and Evolution — studies that push back the earliest date of…

NEW ULM — Science Museum of Minnesota Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology Alex Hastings, PhD was so excited, he couldn’t stand still. During a presentation a

The research is the first to show how our prehistoric ancestors had the hunting skills to take on the fearsome beasts, despite their rudimentary tools.

Instead of sipping drinks on a patio or lounging on a beach, Irene Galea spent her vacation excavating an 11.6-million-year-old riverbed

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest example of a unique brain surgery procedure, which dated back to 3,500 years ago. The discovery came in the form of skeletons of two Bronze Age [...]

“[A] growing body of data demonstrates the appearance of modern behavior in extinct (Neanderthal) populations of Europe, well before the immigration of humans.”

A genetic analysis of ancient bones found in a Bulgarian cave last year provides the earliest known evidence of the modern humans in Europe, 45,000 years ago. The remains, whoever it belonged to, was potentially more closely related to present-day East Asian populations of their day than with today's Europeans.