New archeological discoveries, combined with cutting-edge scientific techniques, are bringing us closer than ever to Neanderthals. The Real Neanderthal, a new documentary from The Nature of Things ...

When they come face-to-face with the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men, people have as close as they can get to a real encounter,' he says, adding, 'Their faces are really alive.' The models help to ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Groundbreaking research showed that Neanderthals enjoyed a complete seafood diet of sharks, dolphins, and seals around ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

The real "end" of the Neanderthals was probably more a quiet ebbing away than a dramatic finale. And 2024 study in the journal Science found that up to 3.7% of the Neanderthal genome came from ...

In a recent paper published in Nature, researchers describe how Neanderthals in Europe ate — revealing what the original version of the "paleo diet" was actually like. Turns out, the paleo diet ...

Conducting one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date, scientists found members of the first known Neanderthal family who lived more than 50,000 years ago Nicholas Rice ...

Understanding the role of Neanderthal DNA in modern health is more than just an academic curiosity- it has real implications for medicine and genetics. Identifying beneficial genetic traits ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...