New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Genetic research shows Neanderthals carried variants for red hair, freckles, and pale skin, while others had darker complexions. Populations living further north evolved lighter tones for vitamin D ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

At Neumark-Nord in Germany, archaeologists discovered a site where Neanderthals processed animal bones to extract fat. This ...

“I think the reports were much worse than what he really said. I think some things were really taken out of context. So I will not call him the knuckle dragging neanderthal that perhaps others would ...