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Neanderthal woodworking was far more advanced than we thought, new study shows | Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age | New Scientist
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Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age | New Scientist
When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Extinct yak relative discovered from DNA in Denisova cave | New Scientist
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Extinct yak relative discovered from DNA in Denisova cave | New Scientist
Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the Denisovans has revealed that the region was once also home to a previously unknown...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adult fossil strengthens evidence for Homo erectus in southern Africa 2 million years ago
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Adult fossil strengthens evidence for Homo erectus in southern Africa 2 million years ago
La Trobe archaeologists have described 18 new hominin fossils, including a second Homo erectus skull fragment that confirms the species first appeared in southern Africa 2.0 million years ago—200,000...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New fossil evidence is reshaping the timeline of Out of Africa | New Scientist
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New fossil evidence is reshaping the timeline of Out of Africa | New Scientist
https://youtu.be/54AK8kIGkms The story of how Homo sapiens left Africa is more complicated than we once thought. Fossils suggest our species reached parts
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age, From Rope to Thread and Twine
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scientists Found Cave Art That Could Rewrite What We Know About Human History
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Scientists Found Cave Art That Could Rewrite What We Know About Human History
Scientists say 15,000-year-old engravings prove humans reached the Emerald Isle far earlier than thought via a lost land bridge.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
News - Denisovan Fossils and Possible Tools Uncovered in China - Archaeology Magazine
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News - Denisovan Fossils and Possible Tools Uncovered in China - Archaeology Magazine
YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA—Science News reports that fossils from at least three Denisovan individuals who lived […]
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Denisovans Carried DNA From Unknown Human Lineage That Lived 1.8 Million Years Ago - GreekReporter.com
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There Was Never A Single Cradle Of Humanity, And The Fossils Stopped Supporting One A Decade Ago - Futura-Sciences
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There Was Never A Single Cradle Of Humanity, And The Fossils Stopped Supporting One A Decade Ago - Futura-Sciences
The phrase implies a place. The evidence now describes a continent-wide network of populations that kept separating and reconnecting. Search for the cradle of humanity and you will be offered a coordinate....
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Denisovans who interbred with modern humans were already hybrids. UC Berkeley researchers inferred that 3 to 5 percent of their DNA came from an unidentified hominin lineage that diverged from ours roughly 1.8 million years ago—meaning some people al…
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The Denisovans who interbred with modern humans were already hybrids. UC Berkeley researchers inferred that 3 to 5 percent of their DNA came from an unidentified hominin lineage that diverged from ours roughly 1.8 million years ago—meaning some people alive today carry genetic material passed through two separate episodes of interbreeding across hundreds of thousands of years.
A genomic reconstruction suggests Denisovans inherited 3 to 5 percent of their DNA from a much older unidentified lineage before passing a fraction onward to modern humans.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A tiny bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a girl who lived around 90,000 years ago, and her DNA revealed something archaeologists had never seen directly before — her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan
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A tiny bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a girl who lived around 90,000 years ago, and her DNA revealed something archaeologists had never seen directly before — her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan
For the first time, scientists directly observed what happens when two extinct human species had a child together—and her remains were hiding in plain sight.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A 45,000 year old crystal tool challenges long held views of Neanderthal intelligence - Futura-Sciences
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A 45,000 year old crystal tool challenges long held views of Neanderthal intelligence - Futura-Sciences
A cave in the Dordogne George Grant MacCurdy led the five year project at Abri des Merveilles. Between 1924 and 1929, his team recovered seven rock crystal tools from the site’s sediment layers. The...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
400,000-year-old teeth reveal a hidden link in human evolution | ScienceDaily
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400,000-year-old teeth reveal a hidden link in human evolution
More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations suggesting...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The 176,000 year old stalagmite walls that prove Neanderthal intelligence - Futura-Sciences
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The 176,000 year old stalagmite walls that prove Neanderthal intelligence - Futura-Sciences
Redating the subterranean rings Scientists initially thought the stone circles were around 47,000 years old, basing their estimate on radiocarbon dating of a burned bone found inside the chamber. That...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually v…
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Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually vanished
The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
First Arm Bone Of A Denisovan Discovered In Chinese Cave, Adding A Fascinating Piece To The Prehistoric Puzzle | IFLScience
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Denisovan tools from cave in China shows how mysterious humans lived
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Denisovan tools from cave in China shows how mysterious humans lived | New Scientist
A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at the site suggests the ancient humans were skilled hunters, although their stone...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excavations at Prado Vargas now span 140 square meters of a Neanderthal layer
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Excavations at Prado Vargas now span 140 square meters of a Neanderthal layer
The 2026 field season at Prado Vargas Cave, located in the village of Cornejo in the northern province of Burgos, Spain, within the Ojo Guareña karst complex, has expanded the excavation of Neanderthal...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise | New Scientist
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What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise  | New Scientist
An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes us inside the cave where they lived and died
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
'Hobbits' walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Our Feet Are Daintier Than Those Of Neanderthals | IFLScience
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Calpe Conference will discuss Neanderthal children on 100th anniversary of 'Gibraltar 2' skull
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Calpe Conference will discuss Neanderthal children on 100th anniversary of 'Gibraltar 2' skull
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Two mysterious ‘ghost’ lineages discovered in modern human DNA | CNN
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
China's 'Dragon Man' Was Actually A Denisovan
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Scientists Have Accidentally Stumbled Upon A Whole New Species Of Human. This Expert Says It’s Rewriting Early Human History
Scientists have linked a bizarre skull found in China to a recently discovered early human species known as the Denisovans.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
News - Study Compares Neanderthal and Modern Human Hip Bones - Archaeology Magazine
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News - Study Compares Neanderthal and Modern Human Hip Bones - Archaeology Magazine
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—Phys.org reports that a team of researchers led by Christoph Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce […]
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Denisovans towered over their contemporaries and munched a bunch of meat | Science | AAAS
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries
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Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries
Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the American...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Male Neanderthal hips looked more like a human woman's hips | Popular Science
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Male Neanderthal hips looked more like a human woman's hips
The hip bones don’t lie.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible | Live Science
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Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible
Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Neanderthal gene inherited by modern humans linked to greater muscle mass | Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tibetans carry a Denisovan-like DNA segment around EPAS1 that is associated with lower hemoglobin at high altitude, showing how interbreeding with an extinct human population contributed to life on the plateau - ScienceBlog.com
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Tibetans carry a Denisovan-like DNA segment around EPAS1 that is associated with lower hemoglobin at high altitude, showing how interbreeding with an extinct human population contributed to life on the plateau
A ghost species' gift: how Denisovans helped Tibetans breathe thin air, millions of years after vanishing from Earth.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Some Humans May Still Be Carrying Neanderthal Strength in Their DNA, Study Finds
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Some Humans May Still Be Carrying Neanderthal Strength in Their DNA, Study Finds
Researchers say the inherited neanderthal growth hormone receptor variant is linked to slightly more lean muscle mass.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cave Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture
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Cave Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture
Modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared more than land and genes. They may have also shared culture.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Scientists Discover that the Increase in Visual Information Was What Allowed the Development of Ape and Human Brains
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Scientists Discover that the Increase in Visual Information Was What Allowed the Development of Ape and Human Brains
The research, published in the journal Science, was led by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and at the Nicholas School of the Environment...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised - The Atlantic
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The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As Neanderthals | IFLScience
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Deep Inside A Cave, Neanderthals Built A Circular Structure Made Of Stalagmites 176,500 Years Ago | IFLScience
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Neanderthal growth hormone receptor increases muscle mass in people today, study shows
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Neanderthal growth hormone receptor increases muscle mass in people today, study shows
Neanderthals were generally more strongly built than most people living today. Their bones show signs of large muscles, and they had characteristic features such as prominent brow ridges and relatively...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an 'eye for beauty of form and…
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Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an 'eye for beauty of form and color'
A chance find of rare rock crystal tools a century ago paved the way for a better understanding of Neanderthals today.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins | Sci.News
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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins | Sci.News
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Homo sapiens outlived six other human species, scientists say | RBC-Ukraine
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Seven human species once lived on Earth: Why only we survived?
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors
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New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors
UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Digging for Neanderthals under a medieval Welsh castle | National Geographic
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Digging for Neanderthals under a medieval Welsh castle
Unscathed by destructive Victorian-era excavations and modern tourism, Wogan Cavern may provide scientists with a glimpse into the lives of our earliest ancestors.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal | Live Science
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Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal
Newly excavated bones from Gran Dolina cave in Spain reveal an ancient human relative practiced cannibalism on adults and children, but researchers still don't know why.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Neanderthal Cannibalism: Why Women and Children Were the Main Victims Shocks Experts - Futura-Sciences
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Neanderthal Cannibalism: Why Women and Children Were the Main Victims Shocks Experts - Futura-Sciences
An Unprecedented Glimpse into Prehistoric Conflict After ten years of painstaking research, an international team has delivered a breakthrough in our understanding of group interactions and conflict during...
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution
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New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution
Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural barriers were broken.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Neanderthals Nearly Vanished 75,000 Years Ago – Then One Group Repopulated Europe
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Neanderthals Nearly Vanished 75,000 Years Ago – Then One Group Repopulated Europe
A new study from the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and the University of Tübingen reveals major shifts in Neanderthal genetic history.
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Neanderthal Babies Were 'Built Different' and Could Reach Toddler Size in Only Six Months
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Neanderthal Babies Were 'Built Different' and Could Reach Toddler Size in Only Six Months
A 50,000-year-old infant skeleton reveals our extinct cousins grew up surprisingly fast to survive
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Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Flores Hobbits scavenged Komodo dragons' elephant kills, study suggests - Ars Technica
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Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past
If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.
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