According to the study, Amud 7’s remains date to approximately 51,000 and 56,000 years ago and belong to the most complete ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Yet a detailed analysis of the remains of a Neanderthal baby shows that from a very young age, they were already different, ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

New interpretations suggest that Neanderthal and Sapiens interactions were shaped by biology and social structure, not simple ...

Baby Neanderthals may have been much larger and grown much more quickly than their modern Homo sapiens counterparts, ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

They're regularly depicted as primitive and brutish - but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study.

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.” They sit there like blank tape in an ...