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Neanderthals consumed a wide array of food, mainly hoofed mammals, [51] but also megafauna, [30] [52] plants, [53] [54] [55] small mammals, birds, and aquatic and marine resources. [56] Although they were probably apex predators, they still competed with cave lions, cave hyenas and other large predators. [57]
Homo sapiens were less vulnerable to Neanderthal diseases, partly because they had evolved to cope with the far higher disease load of the tropics and so were more able to cope with novel pathogens, and partly because the higher numbers of Homo sapiens meant that even devastating outbreaks would still have left enough survivors for a viable ...
"Both humans and Neanderthals go extinct in Europe at this time," he said. "If we as a successful species died out in the region then it is not a big surprise that Neanderthals, who had an even ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin lived in southeastern France, not long before his species went extinct. His remains were first discovered in 2015 and sparked a ...
Slimak determined that this particular Neanderthal lived 42,000 years ago, towards the end of that species’ time on this planet. As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character.
Homo antecessor may be a common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals. [40] [41] At present estimate, humans have approximately 20,000–25,000 genes and share 99% of their DNA with the now extinct Neanderthal [42] and 95–99% of their DNA with their closest living evolutionary relative, the chimpanzees.
A Neanderthal was buried 75,000 years ago, and experts painstakingly pieced together what she looked like. ... Still, over the years scientists have found increasing evidence of Neanderthals ...
This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient cataclysmic climate event, and more. Puzzling fossil discovery could reveal ...