They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Neanderthals have fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the 19th century. Their long heads and low brow ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals living ...

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

The only living evidence of Neanderthals today is in the genomes of human beings. Scientists approximate that between one and five percent of modern European and Asian genomes contain Neanderthal DNA ...

Modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, and those genes still impact our health today. Scientists think they've figured out when the two groups started interbreeding and swapping DNA.

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Homo sapiens' closest relatives, the Neanderthals, died off approximately 40,000 years ago, but the exact cause is still up for debate. Now, a new study suggests that climate change was a bigger part ...

A reconstructed Neanderthal ear adds a new piece to the puzzle of whether the early humans could speak. By Sabrina Imbler If you were somehow able to travel back in time some 130,000 years and chance ...

Forget those brutish caveman grunts. Neanderthals, our closest ancestors, could have produced the same sounds as humans today, according to a study modeling the hearing ability of the Stone Age ...

Way more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new study finds. Scientists initially thought that ...