New archeological discoveries, combined with cutting-edge scientific techniques, are bringing us closer than ever to Neanderthals. The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature of Things ...

When they come face-to-face with the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men, people have as close as they can get to a real encounter,' he says, adding, 'Their faces are really alive.' The models help to ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

In a recent paper published in Nature, researchers describe how Neanderthals in Europe ate — revealing what the original version of the "paleo diet" was actually like. Turns out, the paleo diet ...

Conducting one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date, scientists found members of the first known Neanderthal family who lived more than 50,000 years ago Nicholas Rice ...

The real "end" of the Neanderthals was probably more a quiet ebbing away than a dramatic finale. And 2024 study in the journal Science found that up to 3.7% of the Neanderthal genome came from ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...