Inside a cave on the coast of Northern Norway, researchers have identified the bones of 46 species of mammals, birds and fish ...

We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our species ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Researchers say that the fossilized bones of "Homo naledi," so far found exclusively underground in South Africa, lack a key ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

(Updated 10/10/23) My first experience sleeping in a cave hotel was many years ago in Santorini, in one of those typical whitewashed hotels dug into the volcanic rock and once used as inexpensive ...

One Laos gold miner was brought out of a flooded cave in a perilous two-hour operation where monsoon rains have trapped a group for over a week.