The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

For decades, popular imagination has painted Neanderthals as pure carnivores, hulking hunters who survived almost entirely on ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...