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

Recent analysis of rock art in a Spanish cave has revealed that Neanderthals were creating abstract images and engravings at ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled ...

Recent archaeological excavations in Crimea have unearthed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal culture: the crafting and use ...

A fingerprint left by a Neanderthal on a rock 43,000 years ago could be the oldest known figurative representation of a human face, scientists have suggested. The discovery of the pebble marked in ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

Neanderthals were long stereotyped as primitive and dim-witted, but science has corrected that misconception, showing them as intelligent, cultural and connected to modern humans. This illustrates how ...