In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

Unearthing the secrets of our ancient ancestors, researchers have recently discovered 78,000-year-old footprints left by a Neanderthal man, child, and toddler on a beach in Portugal. These footprints, ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the journal Science Advances. The scientists announced that they had discovered a ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

Neanderthal ex machina -- Mummies and molecules -- Amplifying the past -- Dinosaurs in the lab -- Human frustrations -- A Croatian connection -- A new home -- Multiregional controversies -- Nuclear ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Neanderthals, an early species of human, interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans more often and more recently than previously thought, a study published Monday in Nature found. The research ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

The results, along with those of subsequent studies, indicated that Neanderthals contributed little, if any, DNA to modern humans. Instead, they appear to have been displaced by modern humans—the ...

Scientists believed that Neanderthals’ large noses were built to warm cold air, an essential adaptation to the icy landscapes they inhabited. But a new analysis of anearly perfectly preserved ...

Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear the same marks of butchery as ...