MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

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

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

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

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, highlighting Neanderthal ingenuity.

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

A new study suggests that some modern brain malformations may be linked to Neanderthal ancestry. Researchers have found that ...

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