The most prominent difference between human male and female skeletons is the pelvis, which anthropologists often use to ...

The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from adults and older children have revealed the distinctive features that set ...

Neanderthals are largely associated with colder climates across Eurasia. But researchers know that both Homo sapiens and ...

People worldwide carry DNA from a mysterious extinct human lineage that interbred with our ancestors long ago.

A group of 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may shed new light on when our species branched off from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans. A team of anthropologists recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare Neanderthal infant fossils suggest prenatal growth was much like modern humans, while teeth reveal signs of early ...

A new analysis of stone tools from the Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia suggests Neanderthals ventured far deeper into the Arabian Peninsula than previously thought, reaching lakeside sites ...

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 may have trekked far deeper into the Arabian Peninsula than scientists previously thought ...

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at ...

New research hints that some living people inherited a gene variant from Neanderthals that has made them slightly taller and ...

It’s often said that Neanderthal noses were perfectly suited for life in cold weather, but this common view may need some fine-tuning thanks to new fossil evidence. Neanderthals — who lived in colder ...