New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

A "truly extraordinary" Neanderthal skeleton covered in "cave popcorn" is shedding new light on some of the mysteries of human evolution. Known as the "Altamura Man," it is one of the best ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

A 2016 study by Vanderbilt University researchers linked one length of Neanderthal DNA to a higher risk of nicotine addiction. Getty Images. Here’s a look at the characteristics, from smoking to ...

The face of a 75,000-year-old neanderthal woman was ... Cambridge in England painstakingly pieced together 200 parts of the cave woman’s smashed skull to recreate her facial features, ...

The scientists discovered that the percentage of Homo sapiens DNA in the Neanderthal genome may have been as high as 10% more than 200,000 years ago and decreased over time; on average, it was 2.5 ...

What is a Neanderthal? At first glance, fossilized Neanderthal bones seem human-like. But a closer look reveals the characteristics that differentiate our ancient ancestors from modern Homo ...

Scientists Found a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Who Lived Long After His People Went Extinct The ‘Lapedo Boy’ was found in 1998, but we only now figured out when he lived. By Tim Newcomb Published ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...