Neanderthals are also known as <em>Homo neanderthalensis. </em>The earliest fossils of neanderthals was found in Europe and dated 450,000 and 430,000 years ago. They were expanded into central Asia and south west.
Scientists believed that neanderthals lived 120,000 in Europe and emerged in the cold ice age. The became extinct as the cold ice age was converted into the warm climate.
