Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

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 ...

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

A groundbreaking DNA discovery reveals how Neanderthals crossed vast distances.

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

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

On Portugal’s Algarve coast, researchers uncovered 82,000-year-old fossilized footprints left by Neanderthals, including ...

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

Genetic research shows that Neanderthals had far more variation in skin and hair color than once believed. From red-haired, freckled individuals in Europe to darker-skinned populations closer to the ...

A small bone from Starosele Cave in Crimea has changed how we see Neanderthals. With a length of about two inches (five centimeters), the bone held DNA from a Neanderthal who lived over 45,000 years ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...