Criss-crossed by river systems, with wide valleys, lakes and floodplains, these were rich habitats for large herds of ice age mammals such as horse, reindeer, woolly rhino and mammoth.
Significant areas of the North Sea were, at times, dry land. The North Sea is one of the world's richest areas for mammal fossils.īut the remains of ancient humans are scarce this is the first known specimen to have been recovered from the sea bed anywhere in the world.įor most of the last half million years, sea levels were substantially lower than they are today. Scientists in Leiden, in the Netherlands, have unveiled the specimen - a fragment from the front of a skull belonging to a young adult male.Īnalysis of chemical "isotopes" in the 60,000-year-old fossil suggest a carnivorous diet, matching results from other Neanderthal specimens. Part of a Neanderthal man's skull has been dredged up from the North Sea, in the first confirmed find of its kind. The fragment of skull belonged to a young adult male
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