Most known prehistoric art is linked to Homo sapiens, which is why for a long time archaeologists have believed that modern ...

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a ...

The discovery could deepen our understanding of the Neanderthal mind, but some experts aren’t convinced by the interpretation ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Ochre mark is thought to be oldest complete fingerprint ever found and may suggest Neanderthals were capable of abstract ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving ...