DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the cave show the girl was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. The discovery, reported in Nature, gives a rare insight into the ...

Researchers have described the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still arranged in their original positions.

According to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal bone carving may ...

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population in Ranis, Germany, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) away. They found snippets of Neanderthal DNA that placed the mating at around ...

Traces of the viruses were detected in ancient Neanderthal bones. The findings are the first step toward figuring out whether infectious diseases contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.

were made by humans or Neanderthals. Drawing on a more recent excavation of the same site and by sifting painstakingly through dozens of boxes to find bone fragments that might have been ...

Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia reveal that Neanderthals were top-level carnivores who obtained most of their dietary ...

Radiocarbon dating of bone fragments from Ranis, Germany, were shown to have 2.9% Neanderthal ancestry, which the authors believe occurred from a single mixing event common among all non-African ...

“We don’t want to overshoot the mark,” one told Spiegel. Neanderthal bone discoveries are very rare as they walked the earth around 40,000 to 130,000 years ago, according to expert ...

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population in Ranis, Germany, about 140 miles away. They found snippets of Neanderthal DNA that placed the mating around 45,000 years ago.

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population in Ranis, Germany, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) away. They found snippets of Neanderthal DNA that placed the mating at around ...