The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at ...

The oldest digital imprint ever found in Europe discovered: it belonged to a neanderthal man and was found in the ...

Learn more about one of the oldest possible art pieces with a fingerprint from Europe, which may represent a human face.

The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is now seen as Homo heidelbergensis, but what do we know about this enigmatic species of ancient humans? The discovery ...

We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. The carnivorous plant attracts not just insects but mammals too, and for a good reason.

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...