Two of these extinct beings—Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people—are pretty close to us, evolutionarily speaking. But they’re not the same species. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...

6. Don’t forget to look up now and then. Shed hunt long enough and you’ll inevitably adopt the slumped posture of a Cro-Magnon. To avoid a trip to the chiropractor, make a point of looking up ...

The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on, the Neanderthal may appear disproportionately larger. Neanderthals did have larger faces than early moderns, but the ...

Picasso was particularly inspired by various prehistoric elements, as the 2023 exhibition No Past in Art: How Prehistory Inspired Picasso’s Work at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris showed. Gauguin, ...

The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of an early modern human living around 30,000 years ago, referred to by some scientists as a Cro-Magnon, who was part of the Gravettian prehistoric ...

“Let’s call it Comet Atlas,” said astronomy expert Dr. Irwin Horowitz. “This is the first time it’s returned to the inner ...

a temporal span equal to the one that separates us from Cro-Magnon cave painters. Those inescapable facts lead even some of the staunchest advocates of human spaceflight to conclude that ...

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The scientists called the site Cro-Magnon 1, a name which stuck with these early Homo sapiens until recent years. Cro-Magnons were early H. sapiens, and their survival was no easy matter.