Historically, Neanderthals have been portrayed as brutish, hunched-over hominins, relatively slow of body and mind. So what ...

Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

The last Neanderthals lived in Western Europe but disappeared within a few thousand years of the arrival of modern humans.

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

THE cavemen were just as intelligent as modern humans – and didn’t die out because of inferior brains, experts say. For years ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist Michael Marshall details a surprising new hypothesis that suggests they may h ...