Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

A study reveals that the majority of genes transmitted to us by Neanderthals through hybridization between the two species ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but two ...