Now a new study in the journal PNAS has used state-of-the-art technology to break down the complexities of the neanderthals' diet — and cast doubt on one popular theory about why they went extinct.

Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relative; they lived between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, primarily in Europe and ...

Chemical analysis of tiny bits of bone from a skull and a jawbone of the Neanderthals, who lived 28,000 years ago, disclose that their diet closely resembled the diets of the most predatory ...

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From the unique diet of the Neanderthal to the advanced language ability and communication skill, the picture that they're producing is far from primitive. In fact, though the Neanderthals were a ...

smaller animals were part of Neanderthals’ diet. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser. Author provided Neanderthals were a species constantly on the move who needed a high calorie diet. The butchered ...

Neanderthals in present-day Portugal harvested sea creatures more than 90,000 years ago and used cooking methods that would give them “meaningful nutritional benefits”, reveal the findings of ...

But to really understand the most important thing these Neanderthal diet discoveries tell us, we have to look at them together. Together, they show that Neanderthals in different parts of Europe ...

It’s a good thing that Neanderthals didn’t have tartar-control toothpaste. What looks to us like unsightly buildup has turned out to be a goldmine for microbiologists who study human evolution.