A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Neanderthal guys were no girlie-men. Prehistoric man apparently boasted a rock-hard body, including an overdeveloped right arm that would make Popeye jealous, according to a new scientific report. … ...

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

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

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

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

Watch a film about the making of the Neanderthal and Homo sapiens models on display in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery. Discover the art and science involved.

A fabricated image of a giant man towering above a crowd of people is being shared alongside false claims that it shows the “last Neanderthal giant”, but the image was likely generated using ...

Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart? Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed.

Scientists have created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal man was short but ...

Neanderthal Man Svante Pääbo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and animals. Now he hopes to decode the DNA of our evolutionary cousins ...