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

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

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

23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be considered separate species. Amanda Heidt is a Utah-based ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...

"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.

Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They lived from around 430,000 years ago until their disappearance relatively ...