Eight Neanderthal teeth recovered from a single cave in southern Poland have yielded mitochondrial genomes belonging to at ...

Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton from southern France has reshaped the story of how Europe’s last Neanderthals lived and died. The individual, nicknamed “Thorin,” belonged to a previously ...

Some Neanderthals really enjoyed their surf and turf rather than mammoth steaks, according to a new study. The recent excavation of a cave site along Portugal's coast revealed a wealth of fossilized ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But the routes they took have ...

After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neanderthals, resulting in around 2–3% Neanderthal DNA that can be found in the genomes of all people outside Africa today. However, little ...

"Proceedings of the international congress to commemorate "150 years of Neanderthal discoveries, 1856-2006", organized by Silvana Condemi, Wighart von Koenigswald, Thomas Litt and Friedemann Schrenk, ...

In Europe, Neanderthals used Quina stone tools during a dry and cold period 60,000 to 50,000 years ago in a landscape of open woodland. The tools would have helped Neanderthals hunt migrating herds of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...