Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

While the Neanderthals died out some 40,000 years ago, their genetic footprint lives on. When early modern humans migrated out of Africa and encountered them, interbreeding occurred. As a result, ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...