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

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

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

Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. Homo erectus H. sapiens ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...