Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday.

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130 ...

Archaeologists Were Exploring a Cave—and Found 100 Prehistoric Structures Experts believe the modified stalagmites are evidence of a planned occupation of the caves by ancient societies.

The researchers were able to date the cave art because of an overlap with cave bear claw marks and the artwork. Cave bears went extinct roughly 24,000 years ago.

In the study, researchers examined 3,791 bone scraps from Denisova Cave. They looked for proteins they knew were Denisovan based on previous DNA research on the extinct lineage.

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The large, extinct creatures roamed the Twin Cities area more than 10,000 years ago and could grow to more than 200 pounds ...

The Earth’s historical past was home to some of the most massive and terrifying creatures that reigned as the topmost frightening predators of the land, some of which reached sizes and developed ...