A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

Fifty years ago, on a summer afternoon in 1975, a bulldozer operator at a home construction site made a startling discovery: human bones. The skeletal remains belonged to a woman, who authorities ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...