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

Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

Despite the existence of just one species today, Homo sapiens, investigations at ancient sites may uncover a new species.

Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They ...

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

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

Yet there are some who would argue that they should be classed as a subspecies of our own, as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. This is largely because we know the two human lineages interbred. Chris ...

"This study clarifies a hominin fossil record that has tended to include anything that cannot easily be assigned to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, or Homo sapiens," Bae said.

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most ...