A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children together, yet their faces ended up strikingly different. The contrast between our ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

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

Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct human relatives probably did it too ...