A Neanderthal skull on display. Scientists have uncovered new insights into a “truly extraordinary” Neanderthal skeleton (not pictured) in Italy. RDImages/Epics/Getty Images Neanderthals ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

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

Is burying the dead a practice unique to Homo sapiens? A child’s skeleton buried 41,000 years ago and evidence of funerary behavior could shed light on the cognitive abilities and social customs ...

Researchers have described the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still arranged in their original ...

A Neanderthal skull retrieved from La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France in 1908. Part of a near-complete skeleton, it dates between 35,000 and 50,000 years old. | Stefano Bianchetti/GettyImages Unlike ...

Around 70,000 years ago, a Neanderthal was laid to rest in Shanidar Cave. Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a ...

The remains of a middle-aged person unearthed in a cave in northern Iraq comprise the first perfectly arranged set of Neanderthal bones discovered in more than 20 years, archaeologists say. Deep in… ...

Scientists have recovered a fully articulated Neanderthal skeleton, the first in 20 years, from the "flower burial" site at Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

He was just seven-and-a-half when he died some 49,000 years ago, an otherwise healthy Neanderthal boy whose cause of death remains a mystery. An analysis of his well-preserved skeleton is ...