This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more we discover how smart they really were. It wasn't very long ago that the public and scientific perception of Homo neanderthalensis was unflattering, to ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

The bones were discovered at two caves in the 1990s, but scientists recently revisited them to take a closer look at the cut marks. Anaëlle Jallon Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...

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(SPAIN) — Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely aided the child to survive to about age 6 — ...