Belgian cave analysis shows Neanderthal cannibalism involving nonlocal women and children who were killed and eaten 45,000 ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some ...

New research suggests Neanderthals didn't face a sudden extinction but were gradually absorbed into the growing human ...

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

Forty-one millennia ago, deep inside a Belgian cave, Neanderthals left behind a disturbing legacy. Mixed in with the ...

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

We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys ...

Neanderthals are usually seen as brutish and primitive, but research now suggests our ancestors kissed often - and even with ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.