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 ...

It was there that the case of the Denisovan pinkie bone took a startling turn. Pääbo, a transplanted Swede, is arguably the ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences exploring the complex ...

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 ...

Workers cleared a German cave in 1856 and tossed out strange bones. Later studies show why those scraps changed science.

Fuhlrott's theory arrived two years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, at a time when the concept of human evolution had yet to gain widespread acceptance. Suggesting that ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of lower jaws from North Africa demonstrates variation among hominin fossils. The jaw on the upper right is from the ...

About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, bearing ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like. Our popular culture view of what Neanderthals might have looked like hasn’t ...