A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals. The skull has both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

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

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

Researchers identify a new type of early human with no chin and large teeth from around 400,000 years ago ‘The discovery of the Nesher Ramla site writes a new and fascinating chapter in the ...

The face of a 75,000-year-old neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously ...

Slimak determined that this particular Neanderthal lived 42,000 years ago, towards the end of that species’ time on this planet. As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character.

Neanderthals, a distinct species that went extinct around 40,000 years ago, lived alongside early modern humans in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for at least part of their existence ...

Researchers didn’t see the Neanderthal art until the 1970s. Now, it’s taken another several decades to accurately determine when those drawings were probably made.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the ...