Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...

Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered some evidence of Neanderthal habitation during their recent survey conducted in ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...