Neanderthals are famous for having lived through the last major ice age, yet for a period of around 14,000 years they…
Denisova cave in southern Siberia was home to Neanderthals and Denisovans for thousands of years, but questions remain…
Buried deep within the DNA of Asian individuals is a genetic clue pointing to the existence of an unknown human…
The stereotype of a typical Neanderthal life is that it was extraordinarily difficult, violent, and traumatic. But a…
Around 250,000 years ago, two Neanderthal children were exposed to excessive levels of lead in what is now France,…
Neanderthals cared for their sick and wounded, and new research suggests this well-documented behavior was more than…
Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to…
Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had heavy eyebrows, huge noses, and large, long faces that bulged forward.…
Back in 2012, archaeologists concluded that a series of cave paintings in Spain were created by Neanderthals, not early…
A re-analysis of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal skull shows that, in addition to enduring multiple injuries and…
A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date.…
He was just seven-and-a-half when he died some 49,000 years ago, an otherwise healthy Neanderthal boy whose cause of…
Over a hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals used tar to bind objects together, yet scientists have struggled to…
It’s a good thing Neanderthals didn’t brush their teeth, otherwise we humans might not have been able to find out what…
A new paper suggests that Neanderthals, unlike humans, never figured out how to make coats to stay warm, and that the…
For over a century, paleoanthropologists have been fascinated by a gory question: were Neanderthals cannibals? In…
We know that neanderthals and humans interbred, and that some people carry the genetic markers of that interbreeding. A…
The oldest samples of Neanderthal DNA have been extracted from remains embedded in a cave in southern Italy, confirming…
Archaeologists have identified a remarkable piece of Neanderthal jewelry comprised of eight white-tailed eagle talons.…
It's widely acknowledged that modern Europeans mated with Neanderthals at some point in the past. We're just not…
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