A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.

Early Humans May Have Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago, Nearly Doubling the Age of the Oldest Known Evidence for the Feat ...

A handful of tiny Neanderthal bones and teeth have given scientists an unusually close look at the earliest stages of life in ...

Were Neanderthals fundamentally different from us modern humans from the very beginning? Researchers have pondered this ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.