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

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

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

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

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...