Maggot-infested meat likely provided Neanderthals and even some modern-day humans with a rich source of fat and nitrogen. Reading time 3 minutes Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals ...

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae. The finding adds to the picture that researchers are painting of how our ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...