The study also floated the possibility that the turtles had been hunted for “their taste or for an assumed medicinal value. ” ...

Late Neanderthals are believed to have descended from a small group that survived extreme Ice Age conditions in southwestern ...

While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals regularly hunted European pond turtles. But they ...

Using bone fragments, some no bigger than a finger, California State University, Northridge anthropologist Hélène Rougier and ...

The Late Neanderthals of Europe who were studied here lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. The researchers analyzed the ...

Learn how Neanderthals in central Europe hunted pond turtles and likely reused their shells as containers or scooping tools.

The research, led by CSUN’s Helene Rougier, found that late Neanderthals descended from a single genetic lineage following a sharp population decline linked to a major ice age.

Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food - they cleaned and reused the turtle's shells as tools.

Scientists have found that Neanderthals in Northern Europe practised cannibalism, targeting individuals from rival groups, ...

In 1948, amateur archaeologists unearthed the remains, which should have shifted researchers' views of Neanderthals. But poor ...