Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just ...

Sketches offer glimpse into Neanderthals' lives in Gibraltar 03:57. ... It's possible that when a female Neanderthal found a mate, she would leave home to live with his family.

Neanderthal men stayed near home, while women migrated to mate, DNA evidence suggests Back to video. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ...

Set on a rocky outcrop in southern Siberia, Chagyrskaya Cave might not look like much. But for one family of Neanderthals, it was home. For the first time, researchers have identified a set of ...

The remains were found in Mandrin cave, which is known to have been home to both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens over time. The Neanderthal, dubbed Thorin in reference to the dwarf in J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Neanderthals separated from the rest of the human lineage about half a million years ago. They spread out of Africa and across Eurasia, arriving about 440,000 years ago.

The oldest known Neanderthal engravings have been identified by researchers from a cave in France, a study has found. The markings can be found on a wall in La Roche-Cotard cave, located in the ...

The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils ...

After they interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, some of their descendants inherited body-clock genes better suited to their new homes. All of these conclusions, however, stem from a ...

What they did — To identify what bacteria called Neanderthals home thousands of years ago, the researchers zoomed in on bacteria found in 14 separate fecal samples found at El Salt in Spain.