Neanderthals crafted complex tools, cared for their sick, ... Neanderthal skulls reveal brains that were shaped differently from ours, with a longer, lower cranium and prominent brow ridges.

The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z was recreated after Cambridge archeologists excavated her body from ... “Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack ...

The face of a 75,000-year-old neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct ... “Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

A Neanderthal was buried 75,000 years ago, ... With pronounced brow ridges and no chins, the skulls of Neanderthals look different from those of our own species, Homo sapiens, ...

The genomes of Neanderthals also show that almost 600 genes were expressed differently between our species and theirs, particularly those associated with the face and voice. Another prominent ...

Humans and Neanderthals share a common ancestor dating back to between 550,000 and 750,000 years ago. Compared to early humans, Neanderthals were muscular with a prominent brow and less pronounced ...

Neanderthals, like earlier H. sapiens, made thicker points, better for thrusting spears used at close range. And Neanderthals may have already been on the brink. For at least 80,000 years before their ...

Neanderthals were likely right-handed, had powerful upper arms (the dominant side was between 25 percent and 60 percent more developed than the nondominant side).

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, a paleolithic archaeologist at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool in the U.K. and the author of "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020), ...