A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

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

When the first Neanderthal specimen was discovered in 1856 in Germany, scientists had never seen a human skull like it. It is ...

A new Indiana University-led study challenges the long-held belief that Neanderthal brain differences signified lower ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes.

Analysis of the “Amud 7” infant from Amud Cave reveals Neanderthals grew significantly faster than modern humans, with a ...

THE cavemen were just as intelligent as modern humans – and didn’t die out because of inferior brains, experts say. For years ...

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