Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A woman in her forties was buried in a cave 75,000 years ago and laid to rest in a trench hollowed out to house her body. Her left hand was curled under her head and … Read more
Researchers recovered ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.Tim Schüler / TLDA Human bones in a German cave place Homo Sapiens in Europe 7,500 years earlier than experts thought. The findings suggest that Homo sapiens lived near Neanderthals for millennia, which is a new revelation. Scientists used to think that Homo … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Microscopic fragments of proteins and DNA recovered from bones discovered in 8 meters (26 feet) of cave dirt have revealed that Neanderthals and humans were probably living side by side in Northern Europe as early … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Microscopic fragments of proteins and DNA recovered from bones discovered in 8 meters (26 feet) of cave dirt have revealed that Neanderthals and humans were probably living side by side in Northern Europe as early … Read more
An employee at the Natural History Museum in London looks at a model of a Neanderthal male.Will Oliver/PA Images/Getty Until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other studies suggest that Neanderthals are not … Read more