Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food. Instead, they cleaned and reused shells as tools.

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A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the human evolution exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum in January 2024. - Mike Kemp/In Pictures/In Pictures via Getty Images The 2010 discovery that ...

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

Despite surviving for hundreds of thousands of years and conquering much of Eurasia, Neanderthals were actually pretty few and far-between. Living in tiny, isolated groups spread out across vast ...

Based on the incision locations, the team believes that Neanderthals sliced open their roughly 30-year-old male prey’s chest ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a major population turnover, resulting in little diversity in their gene pool ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

A genetic study has unveiled that two Neanderthals who lived approximately 10,000 years apart in Siberia's famous Denisova Cave were distant relatives. This remarkable discovery provides the fourth ...

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe, though probably not for food. The careful ...