Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There's less Neanderthal DNA on humans' X ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn team says missing Neanderthal DNA on the human X chromosome may reflect ancient mate choice, not toxic genes. (CREDIT: ...

Neanderthal teeth study overturns 17-year-old cannibal case: child remains from Les Rois Cave in France, once cited as proof ...

Two species of humans occupied the same small cave in southern Türkiye across a span of roughly 20,000 years, and the stone tools and shell beads they left behind look strikingly alike. Neanderthals ...

Neanderthal pelvis bones kept an older design, while the modern male pelvis became a shock absorber that returns energy at ...

A new study found Neanderthals had wider, sturdier heel bones, while modern footwear and sedentary life may have made our ...

A Neanderthal gene variant carried by many people in South Asia is linked to about 9.5 extra ounces of muscle in adults.

We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...

Scientists have known for a while that Neanderthals occasionally mated with humans eons ago. But a study in Science adds a new layer of knowledge to the subject: It turns out that much of this mating ...

It’s rare that ancient DNA from Neanderthals remains as intact as scientists would like. But on the lucky occasion that researchers do find high-quality genomes, the implications are ...

Learn how animal bones and stone tools are helping archaeologists reconstruct Neanderthal camp life in northern Spain.

An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic ...