Scientists believed that Neanderthals’ large noses were built to warm cold air, an essential adaptation to the icy landscapes they inhabited. But a new analysis of anearly perfectly preserved ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

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The site is one of the oldest examples of burial practices among ancient humans, but researchers were puzzled by the excavated hominins’ anatomy. Some of their skeletal features resembled those of ...