Lost-and-Found Fossil Tot: Neandertal baby rises from French archive

For nearly 90 years, a prehistoric baby’s bones lay unidentified in the recesses of a French museum. This was no minor case of misplaced fossils: It was a rare instance of a nearly complete skeleton of a Neandertal.

A survey of the museum’s fossil collection has now salvaged the approximately 40,000-year-old Stone Age specimen, according to a report in the Sept.