New evidence from a cave in southern Türkiye suggests that Neanderthals and early modern humans lived in strikingly similar ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

A group of modern humans that arrived in Eurasia far earlier than previously thought also had sex with Neanderthals, according to a study that redraws the migratory timeline for our species. The new ...

For decades, scientists have known that most people of non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, evidence ...

Somewhere between 2% and 19% of the genetic ancestry carried by present-day West African populations traces back to an archaic hominin group that split from the modern human line before Neanderthals ...

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

The two different species, our ancestors, even collected the same seashells - suggesting a cultural exchange that crossed the ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...