The most complete Neanderthal skull ever examined has given researchers something they have never had before: a virtually ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around ...

Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but not through war or murder alone. A new study suggests that when the two species interbred, a slow-acting genetic incompatibility increased ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen." Questions about their ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and Upper Paleolithic time periods. This time marks the eventual disappearance ...

There are many creatures that have become extinct over the years, and one of these species was the Neanderthals. However, ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient cousins, new research suggests. Researchers found that different versions of a ...