Researchers found that interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans favoured male Neanderthals mating with female modern humans.

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

For some, this status was reached when we attained a certain level of technological complexity, while others view the emergence of abstract thought as the rubicon of modernity – although a new study ...

A new study shows Neanderthals may have planned hunts for giant elephants using teamwork and knowledge of their environment.

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

Picture two ancient apes in a lush African forest, gently pressing their mouths together, not for romance, but as a primal bond. Fast forward 21 milli.

An interdisciplinary study recently published in Nature Communications provides a clearer picture of life in Central Europe ...

Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses ...