Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There’s less Neanderthal DNA on humans’ X ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

A new analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Neanderthal fossils suggests researchers may need to revisit when ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

DNA study reveals Neanderthals who lived 10,000 years apart in Siberia were closely related, offering new insight into their ...

Birch bark pitch. (Jorre/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) Relatives of modern humans may have created and used a sticky ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic analysis ...

The discovery of animal skulls in Des-Cubierta Cave challenges the belief that Neanderthals acted solely out of ...

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...