First-Ever Look At Neanderthal Nasal Cavity Shatters Expectations

First-Ever Look At Neanderthal Nasal Cavity Shatters Expectations

The Altamura Neanderthal was adapted to the cold – but not in the way we thought.

Hidden Neanderthal skull reveals unexpected details about ancient nasal anatomy and climate adaptation

A Neanderthal skeleton, hidden deep in a limestone cave in southern Italy, has revealed a part of the human evolutionary story that scientists had long debated but had never directly observed. Using endoscopic tools to peer into the still-embedded remains of the Altamura individual, discovered in 1993 and dated to roughly 130,000 to 172,000 years […]