The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

The last appearance date of Neanderthals is commonly cited as ca. 30 thousand years ago (ka). This date follows the emergence of modern humans in Europe by several millennia, but our understanding ...

Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in ... including better ways to survive in colder and less sunny climates that altered their genes and appearance, ...

From 200,000 years ago, and especially from 120,000 years ago, the anatomical characteristics of Neanderthals—those that can be seen in the bones—started to become much more evident.

This isn’t the first time a Neanderthal fingerprint has been pinpointed, the authors noted. A partial one, likely made by a thumb, was found on resin discovered in Germany in 1963.