The ultimate action-packed science and technology magazine bursting with exciting information about the universe ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Discover interesting facts about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when they died out.

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now ...

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ancestral populations.

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...

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

The child’s remains were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal. The nearly complete skeleton was stained red, and scientists think it may have been ...