Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Israel suggests a possible Neanderthal-Homo sapien hybrid child. Unearthed in Skhul ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...

Scientists have now extracted and sequenced proteins from dental fossils of extinct rhinoceroses, elephants and ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Superpowers are real—these people are living proof Scientists say that through genetics or training, even mere mortals can develop superhuman powers.

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

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