Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later.

This reconstruction of a Neanderthal man’s features is based on the fossils found at the French site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. Paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès created the sculpture. Neanderthals ...

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 ...

Italian climber Stefano Ghioslfi has repeated 'Neanderthal', the 9b at Santa Linya in Spain freed in 2009 by Chris Sharma.

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research ...