Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

For years, human evolution was thought to be a straightforward progression from Homo erectus to Neanderthals and eventually to modern humans. However, genetic evidence now confirms that modern ...

The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

I know there’s probably a lot, but we have an image of a Neanderthal in our heads, but early Homo sapiens also looked a bit different than we look right now as well. So what made us different ...