Early modern humans and Neanderthals may have lived together in the same caves, according to new research. The post Study ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Homo heidelbergensis is widely seen as a likely last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. First named from a ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not ...

It’s long been an insult to be called a Neanderthal. But the more these elusive, vanished people have been studied, the more respect they’ve gained among scientists. A photo provided by Breuil et al.