Did Ancients Humans Spend the Winters in Hibernation? New Study Suggests They Did0

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• December 23, 2020

Fossils found in Spain suggest that our human predecessors may have hibernated in the winter. Bones collected in Spain’s northern region of Atapuerca show a pattern similar to hibernating animals’ bones. Scientists Antonis Bartsiokas and Juan-Luis Arsuaga examined skeletal evidence from Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo heidelbergensis) to find traces of hyperparathyroidism (over-secretion of the