Study Reveals Neanderthals Had a Good Sea Food Diet of Sharks, Dolphins and Seals Groundbreaking research showed that ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in ...

But the details of that evolutionary history have remained unclear. How often did ancient humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Exactly when did that happen? Why did Neanderthals go extinct ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

Scientists know something crucial happened to those who dispersed. "They met Neanderthals," says Sümer. To be more direct, prehistoric sparks flew. These early modern humans and the Neanderthals ...

Previous research suggests Neanderthals had stockier torsos and larger respiratory systems, potentially adaptations for thermoregulation or high-protein diets. Previous studies on Neanderthal ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins ...