A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals. The skull has both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

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

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic significance.

The face of a 75,000-year-old neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously ...

R esearchers in Israel have identified a new type of early human, thought to be the ancestor of Neanderthals, and a missing link in the story of human evolution. Human fossils, animal bones and ...

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that art began with the modern humans who succeeded them.

Scientist tells Newsweek that Altamura Man research is "of enormous interest for our knowledge of Neanderthals, ourselves as a species and human evolution." ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known Neanderthal art that humanity has ever discovered and it is absolutely mind-boggling.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.