Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

A new study has revealed another remarkable aspect of Neanderthal behavior: they not only ...

A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

Miners in Germany's Neander Valley unearthed peculiar bones in 1856, revealing evidence of a distinct human type. This ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...