For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

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