The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

Learn about the Lapedo child, an ancient human with Neanderthal features who was buried at a rock shelter in Portugal between ...

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

The researchers suggested that the child was descended from populations in which humans and Neanderthals mated and mixed ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered to between 27,700 and ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...