Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone?
While there's plenty of evidence that Neanderthals regularly chowed down on meat, a growing body of research shows our close evolutionary relatives, who went extinct more than 30,000 years ago, also ate other parts of animals besides their meat, such as fat extract from the bone marrow, as well as other foods, including pistachios, lentils and wild peas.
