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__**`NEANDERTHAL SKULL FOSSIL DISCOVERY IN THE NORTH SEA**__

Recently, a fragment of a Homo neanderthalensis male's skull was discovered in the North Sea. It has been recognized as the first discovery of the kind. Professional scientists believe that with the evidence found, it should be easy to identify the character, as the fossil piece is still in good shape. A test has been undertaken, the results showing that the young adult male was probably a carnivore, as other remnants have also shown. The Neanderthals were a separate species,now extinct, that lived in Europe approximately 60,000 years ago. They were 'our close evolutionary cousins'. The species is concidered to have been less intelligent and worse-developed. They were wiped out by the ice age. The difference in the Modern homo sapien skull and the Neanderthal is that they have high rounded skulls which are bigger, they have vertical foreheads and bigger chins. The first time they discovered proof of Neanderthals' existence was in 1856, in Germany. In 1887 fossil pieces were also found in Belgium and France. Because the fossil pieces have been found across Europe, we can assume that the Neanderthals lived across a wide range (approximate habitat area shown below in green). The Neanderthal people sort of looked like the people today. The skull was over 60,000 years old and found in the North sea. This skull is the first actual human fossil to be found under the sea. Also some of the stone tools that the Neanderthals use were found under the sea.

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