Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled around a fire. Or so thought many archaeologists who study the Stone Age.

‘Would you rather eat slimy maggots or crunchy beetles?’ Survivalist Bear Grylls once answered Entertainment Weekly without hesitation: maggots slide down easier. It now appears Neanderthals may have ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The oldest-known hominin track sites found in ...