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 ...

Some of the earliest examples of "art" were created by the hands of Neanderthals. One especially remarkable example can be ...

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 ...

We’ve known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...

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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 ...

Neanderthals and Humans Lived Side by Side ... should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries about human ...

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 ...

For Bruno Lacombe, the French philosopher at the heart of Rachel Kushner’s fantastic new novel, “Creation Lake,” that point ...

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 ...