A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Maltravieso Cave, located in Extremadura, Spain, is shaking up our understanding of the origins ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

A new study reveals that Neanderthals harnessed advanced techniques to create adhesive resin 60,000 years ago.

Africans. Scientists from UC Berkeley and MPI-EVA analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

The 6-year-old boy found the rock and then didn't tell anyone for three years. But a new examination reveals it was made by some of the last Neanderthals.

In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes. And he was absolutely not alone. For around a century, this ...

Humans love to collect things, even though it doesn’t always make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. From stamps, to comic books, to rare coins—if society attaches an emotional or economic ...