Neanderthals were very muscular and rugged, with large bodies and even larger heads. Their skulls show that they have room for a bigger brain than modern humans and would have been distinguished by a ...

MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

In 1856, some curious remains turned up at a limestone quarry in the Neander Valley in Germany. While the skull fragment and bones vaguely resembled those of modern humans, the brow was too robust ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

More than a century ago, a skull was pulled from a riverbank in northeastern China. For decades, it sat hidden in a ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...

It proposes that Neanderthals went extinct for astrophysical reasons. The work was led by Agnit Mukhopadhyay, an expert in space physics, a discipline that studies natural plasmas, especially ...

It is true that sewing needles have not been definitvely linked to Neanderthals. The first needles documented in Eurasia are associated with either Denisovan or sapiens populations around 50,000 ...

The two species existed alongside each other for millennia until about 40,000 years ago, when Neanderthals disappeared. The reason for their demise is not entirely clear, but one factor may have ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest known human fingerprint — left by a Neanderthal more than 42,000 years ago. Print made by a Neanderthal 42,000 years ...