Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

A new radiocarbon dating technique has enabled researchers to establish a more reliable age for the Lapedo child, the ...

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

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 ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences exploring the complex ...

Groundbreaking archaeological research from southern Türkiye suggests a surprising new narrative: modern humans and ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...