We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

When our ancient ancestors made the journey out of Africa and took their first steps in Eurasia, they came face-to-face with Neanderthals for the first time – and boy, did they hit it off. In fact, ...

Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, ...

About 50,000 years ago, we shared this planet with different hominids called the Neanderthals. Their species wasn't human, but they weren't far from it either. No longer walking among us, these early ...

For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...

A new study on Neanderthals reveals the startling discovery of a group that lived in complete isolation for 50,000 years, ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A new study suggests that lifespan might be 50% heritable — although for now, it's hard to know if the finding applies across diverse populations.