People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

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

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

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

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

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

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 ...

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...