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Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one down, but a newly analysed trove of bones suggests it was possible

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Straight-tusked elephant bones hint at routine hunting and butchering by Neanderthals

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Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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A recreation of a Neanderthal man

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Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave

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Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia
Bisonte Magdaleniense pol?cromo

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When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?

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Excavation of a 125,000-year-old archaeological site at Neumark-Nord 2 near Halle, Germany, summer 2007. The excavation of this specific lake shore site, well-preserved in fine-grained water laid deposits, yielded the cut-marked remains of hundreds of large mammals, mainly horses and bovids, and about 20,000 stone artefacts.

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Neanderthals may have cleared a European forest with fire or tools

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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Prehistoric elephant nursery probably made easy prey for Neanderthals

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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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Neanderthal man and woman

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Neanderthal ears were tuned to hear speech just like modern humans

Virtual reconstructions of Neanderthal ears show that our extinct cousins had the same physical capacity for hearing as modern humans, and so could probably also make the same sounds we can – although whether they actually spoke a language is still unknown

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We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals

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We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals

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A Neanderthal family

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Neanderthal DNA linked to higher fertility in modern humans

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The Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria

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Neanderthals may have learned jewellery-making from us

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Neanderthal string

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Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago

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