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, ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

A hearing was held Friday on the Los Angeles County district attorney's motion to withdraw the Menendez brothers' ...

Across the U.S., a little-known conflict is unfolding as farmers secretly target and kill a particular species viewed as a nuisance or threat. With little oversight and minimal legal consequences, ...

A beach in the Australian state of South Australia has been closed due to a mysterious foam. Surfers have reported cold and flu symptoms after visiting Waitpinga Beach. Numerous dead fish have also ...

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 ...

Now, Kennedy has claimed that a definitive cause of increasing autism diagnoses will be announced this September. But that’s not how scientific investigations work. There’s no scientific evidence ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Neanderthals, who did not have such clothing and possibly did not use ochre as sunblock, disappeared from Europe roughly ...