The bones of a skeleton found in an Indonesian cave, which are 7,200 years old appears to have ancestry unlike any other human found to date as per researchers. Nicknamed Bessé’, she is the first known skeleton from an early foraging culture called the Toaleans.

Ancient DNA from a teen girl reveals previously unknown group of humans

If you were somehow able to travel back in time some 130,000 years and chance upon a Neanderthal, you might find yourself telling them about some of humanity’s greatest inventions, such as spanakopita and TikTok.

Neanderthals listened to the world much like us

Neanderthal's 41,000-year-old skeleton all set to resolve the long-standing mystery why the Stone Age hominins intentionally buried their dead. The origin of funerary practices has important implications for the emergence of so-called modern cognitive capacities and behaviour.

Neanderthal's 41,000-year-old skeleton all set to resolve this long-standing mystery