The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled ...

Neanderthals were always considered extremely meat-obsessed species. According to the US researchers, these archaic humans ...

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Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed ...

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

It has been claimed Neanderthals ate a huge amount of meat based on isotope ratios in their bones – but the explanation could ...

Maggot-infested meat likely provided Neanderthals and even some modern-day humans with a rich source of fat and nitrogen.

Rather than feeding on lean game meat, our prehistoric sister lineage may have deliberately stored their kills until the ...