article_snippet.sent: Researchers vanished from the Earth around 40,000 years ago after surviving for hundreds of thousands of years through much of the last ice age.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals, like the reconstruction above on display at the Natural History Museum in London, may have finally died out as A team of archaeologists at Boston University and the University of Bath were unable to get as much energy from A team of archaeologists at Boston University and the University of Bath food as modern humans who used fire .
article_snippet.sent: Instead, it is more likely that they disappeared 40,000 years ago because of interbreeding and assimilation with our early modern human ancestors, scientists believe.
article_snippet.sent: There are a number of theories for what caused Neanderthals to disappear - but most seem to agree it was the arrival of modern humans in Europe and Asia that played a role.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals vanished relatively quickly once modern humans arrived in the areas where Neanderthals were living .