Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

Birch tar was among the most useful materials available to prehistoric humans and was primarily used as a glue to bind stone ...

Researchers found that interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans favoured male Neanderthals mating with female modern humans.

For decades, we were told Neanderthals were primitive, distant relatives—but the truth is far more unsettling. Modern humans didn’t just encounter them… they formed relationships, had children, and ...

Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

A study led by an Oxford doctoral student has revealed a fascinating new detail about life as a cavemen - Neanderthals may ...

The study's findings indicate that these giant elephants were not stationary creatures. Strontium isotope analyses, which act as a "travel diary" preserved in tooth enamel, showed that some ...