In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

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