Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Was a lack of get-up-and-go the death of the Neanderthals? A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries -- what killed off the Neanderthals? Archaeological finds ...

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery of humanity's last great extinction: why the Neanderthals died off. The Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. But around ...

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

Your support makes all the difference. A comet that was last viewed by the Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago could be seen tonight, with astronomers calling it the “comet of the ...

“Thals,” Bruno’s affectionate shorthand for Neanderthals, had larger heads than Homo sapiens, and therefore more brains. The ...

The study also found that AMY1 gene duplications occurred in Neanderthals and Denisovans. “This suggests that the AMY1 gene may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, well before humans ...