Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' ...

For decades, Neanderthals have been cast as the supporting characters in our evolutionary story. They thrived across Ice Age Europe and Western Asia for hundreds of thousands of years until modern ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group. NOVA is available to stream on ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

It is impressive how Generative AI can conjure a “day in the life” image of a Neanderthal in seconds. But a new study suggests those scenes often come with a dash of built-in time travel. Researchers ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group.