This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

For decades, scientists have been captivated by the enigma of Neanderthals. These ancient relatives of modern humans have ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

Neanderthals, meanwhile, are thought to have typically possessed wider, “bell-shaped” ribcages, thus giving them a ...

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.