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 ...

A group of ancient humans with shades of Neanderthal in their physical appearance may have forsaken their home of 300 years following the death of a young member of their clan. As researchers piece ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

This reconstruction of a Neanderthal man’s features is based on the fossils found at the French site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. Paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès created the sculpture. Neanderthals ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

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 ...