Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

We all know that Neanderthals and Modern Humans are closest related to each other when it comes to different species in the Homo Genus, of course not talking about subspecies but I bet you understood ...

Learn more about Thorin the Neanderthal, one of the last remaining specimens of ancient humans to be found in Eurasia.

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens — coexisted in Eurasia and sometimes interbred, researchers say. “We can identity Neanderthal ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...