This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

For decades, scientists have been captivated by the enigma of Neanderthals. These ancient relatives of modern humans have ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported ...

Spacecraft touching the sun, Neanderthals and humans mating, how do crabs feel pain, and what does the reindeer say?

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species' shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

Illustration of Zlatý kůň, who belonged to the same population as the Ranis individuals and was closely related to two of ...

The researchers, from Germany, the UK and the US, analysed more than 300 modern human genomes spanning the past 50,000 years, and calculated when and where Neanderthal DNA started showing up in the ...

Discover why the remains of a Neanderthal house fire in Ukraine provides clues about how Eastern European Neanderthals lived ...

After Neanderthals diverged from humans, they spread toward Europe and Asia, taking up residence in caves and leaving behind ...

A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before any interactions with Homo sapiens. A total of 15 small marine fossils were found in ...

In a breakthrough, scientists have mapped the invisible ripples in spacetime caused by massive objects like black holes.