We all know that Neanderthals and Modern Humans are closest related to each other when it comes to different species in the ...

Learn more about Thorin the Neanderthal, one of the last remaining specimens of ancient humans to be found in Eurasia.

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal, our distant evolutionary ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

Conducting one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date, scientists found members of the first known Neanderthal family who lived more than 50,000 years ago Nicholas Rice ...

Neanderthal bones and skeletons have previously been found alongside Quina stone tools at several sites in Western Europe including at the namesake site of La Quina in southwest France.

"There have never been any Neanderthals found in East Asia, but could we find a Neanderthal? Or, more likely, could we find a Denisovan, which is another kind of human ancestor?” Dr Marwick said. “If ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...