The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once interbred was a scientific bombshell — the revelation of a genetic legacy that’s since been found to play a role in the lives of modern ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Remains of one of the "last" Neanderthals have been discovered, with researchers saying that the find casts new light on the history of these archaic humans. The Neanderthal was unearthed at a cave ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

CNN — The Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010, but mystery still surrounds the early history of our extinct human relative. Now, after researchers were able to extract nuclear genome sequences ...

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 ...

This theory challenges long-standing ideas of conflict-driven extinction and places gene flow at the center of the Neanderthal story. As more fossil and genetic data accumulate, the idea that ...

Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other ...