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

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

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 ...

The group determined that the Neanderthals were living together on rocky clifftops more than 50,000 years ago, and likely died from starvation or during a violent storm. Never miss a story ...

When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately noticed that the child's skeleton had a "mosaic" of Neanderthal and human features, suggesting it was a hybrid individual.

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

A study of a handful of very old bones revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were living and procreating with each other much more recently than anyone realized: just 47,000 years ago.

Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of an early modern human living around 30,000 years ago, referred to by some scientists ...

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 ...

In fact, the shape differences in the ear bones are more marked, on average, than those that distinguish our closest living relatives – chimpanzees and gorillas – from each other. Left to right: ...

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 ...