The most complete Neanderthal skull ever examined has given researchers something they have never had before: a virtually ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

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Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A study of Neanderthal bones has found evidence of ‘light, selective’ cannibalism targeting women and girls some 40-odd ...

Neanderthals were cannibals. Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that ...

Neanderthals in France may have been strutting around in leather clothes with matching handbags more than 100,000 years ago.

Forty-one millennia ago, deep inside a Belgian cave, Neanderthals left behind a disturbing legacy. Mixed in with the ...