Stratified rock layers inside a cave in southern Turkiye have produced the strongest direct evidence to date that ...

Researchers propose migration and social behaviors may explain this pattern in early human-Neanderthal interactions Modern humans of European and Asian ancestry still carry up to 2% Neanderthal DNA ...

Early modern humans and Neanderthals may have lived together in the same caves, according to new research. The two different species even collected the same seashells, suggesting a cultural exchange ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic ...

Unscathed by destructive Victorian-era excavations and modern tourism, Wogan Cavern may provide scientists with a glimpse ...

A rare crystal tool found in a French cave is changing scientific views. This ancient artifact reveals Neanderthals were ...

A LONG-awaited rough draft of the Neanderthal genome has revealed that our own DNA contains clear evidence that early humans interbred with Neanderthals. Such interminglings have been suspected in the ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the species vanished seem to have been genetically diverse and healthy ...

Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern ...

When humans hooked up with Neanderthals, we could have wooed them with music and fancy jewellery. The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens who interbred with ...

A Neanderthal baby who died roughly 55,000 years ago appears to have been only about six months old. Yet the infant’s limbs ...