A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...

A reconstruction of a late Neanderthal from El Salt, southeastern Spain. Some of the last Neanderthals may have lived in the Iberian peninsula. Our closest human relatives may have died out thanks to ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left ...

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

Explore the surprising Neanderthal DNA distribution in modern humans and how Neanderthal genes help adapt to cooler climates. You've heard that Neanderthal DNA lives on in the genes of many modern ...

While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct species. Among other contrasts, Neanderthal ...

Newswise — For more than a century, some scientists have looked at Neanderthal skulls and drawn a conclusion that seemed obvious, that a differently shaped brain from modern humans must have meant ...

Neanderthals died out around 40,000 years ago, possibly due to climate change and competition and interbreeding with modern humans, but no one knows for sure. New research on one Neanderthal ...

Learn how Neanderthals living in Southern Europe knew when to collect and eat shellfish, displaying a seasonal strategy just like modern humans. Neanderthals living in southern Europe were such avid ...

An interview about interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans, with the study’s lead author Israel Hershkovitz, of Tel Aviv University. Video provided by Tel Aviv University. Israel ...

Scientists found evidence that our ancient relatives butchered beavers and marmots for food roughly 130,000 years ago. Yes, actual beavers.