A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes.

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in o.

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

A human skull (left) and a Neanderthal skull (right). (hairymuseummatt/DrMikeBaxter/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) More ...

Researchers studying a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel found the child’s bones appeared older than its dental age ...