The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands, geometric patterns and red circles. They occupy three sites at La Pasiega, Maltravieso and Ardales - situated up to 700km ...

The Palaeolithic artwork, it says, must have been made ... at a separate cave in Gibraltar provided compelling evidence for Neanderthal art. The geometric pattern identified in Gibraltar, on ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia. Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the ...

Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have looked like when she was alive. It is based on the flattened, shattered remains of a skull whose bones ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Decades of research has revealed a complex picture: A perfect storm of factors — including competition among Neanderthal groups, inbreeding and, yes, modern humans — helped erase our closest ...

Most of us have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. Far from being the lumbering brutes that we once thought they were, a slew of recent studies suggest Neanderthals not only interacted with Homo ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

"In some places in our genome, we're more Neanderthal than we are human," Joshua Akey, a professor of integrative genomics at ...