Could the last chapters of Neanderthal history be far more complicated than anyone thought? A newly sequenced genome from a ...

Gene flow chart formulated through mathematical modeling suggests that modern humans absorbed Neanderthals through ...

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

By studying Neanderthal DNA, researchers shed light on key genetic factors that contribute to the unique structure of human faces.

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...