Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

There were also a few curiosities that got the team wondering what was being overlooked further back in time. For example, a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal was found in the Siberian Denisova cave ...

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

New evidence reveals that Neanderthals were rendering fat from animal bones 125,000 years ago.

The excavation of the archaeological site in Germany took place from 2004 to 2009 and was conducted by researchers from ...

New DNA evidence challenges the timeline of human migration to Australia. The ongoing debate about the timeline of human ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...