An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Neanderthals may have never truly gone extinct, according to new research – at least not in the genetic sense.

They weren’t monsters with clubs. Neanderthals painted caves, made tools, and buried their dead with care. They were human—until the day their world ended.

A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration ...

It is not a recent cultural development. A new study in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests kissing may date back 21 ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

The first kiss in history probably took place over 16.9 million years ago — long before humans even existed, a new study suggests.

High-profile news coverage that eLife papers generated in September 2025, including Asia Research News, IFL Science and the Times of India.

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

At Art Sonje in Seoul and elsewhere, he creates environments that transcend human time and cognitive limits, merging entropy, ...