The biggest myths about Neanderthals

Dig into the surprisingly complex lives of Neanderthals, and explore theories on what happened to our evolutionary cousins.

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In 1856, quarriers working in Germany’s Neander Valley discovered several mysterious fossils. The remains changed hands until being identified as the skullcap and femur bones of something ancient and human, but not quite us. It soon became clear they belonged to an extinct human species— the first ever known to science: Neanderthals. Bruce Hardy explores what happened