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

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

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

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

What is a Neanderthal? At first glance, fossilized Neanderthal bones seem human-like. But a closer look reveals the characteristics that differentiate our ancient ancestors from modern Homo ...

Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in ... including better ways to survive in colder and less sunny climates that altered their genes and appearance, ...

From 200,000 years ago, and especially from 120,000 years ago, the anatomical characteristics of Neanderthals—those that can be seen in the bones—started to become much more evident.

The last appearance date of Neanderthals is commonly cited as ca. 30 thousand years ago (ka). This date follows the emergence of modern humans in Europe by several millennia, but our understanding ...

This isn’t the first time a Neanderthal fingerprint has been pinpointed, the authors noted. A partial one, likely made by a thumb, was found on resin discovered in Germany in 1963.

The scientists discovered that the percentage of Homo sapiens DNA in the Neanderthal genome may have been as high as 10% more than 200,000 years ago and decreased over time; on average, it was 2.5 ...