The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

Neanderthal extinction: A space physicist reopens the debate by José-Miguel Tejero, Montserrat Sanz Borràs, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

The results reveal a remarkable variability within the fossil sample of Atapuerca. In the case of the Sima de los Huesos individuals, the upper premolars show thin enamel (like the Neanderthals), ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a pebble that appears to show the oldest full human fingerprint ever recorded. Their investigations suggest it was made by Neanderthals, who may have used a red ...

More information: Moojune Song et al, Single-shot magnon interference in a magnon-superconducting-resonator hybrid circuit, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58482-2 ...

About 45,000 years ago, something unusual happened in Ice Age Europe. A new wave of modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: ...

Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago but also interbred with early modern humans. Most people outside of Africa have some Neanderthal DNA.

In 2018, scientists reconstructed a full-body model of a Neanderthal (based on 40,000-year-old bones found in Belgium) and Cro-Magnon, or an early modern human, species. And in 2017, scientists ...

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations suggest they used river valleys like natural highways to cross daunting ...

Speed Demons of the Stone Age Out of 110 computer simulations, only three successfully reached the Altai region, but those that did completed the journey in roughly 925,000 to 1.1 million individual ...