Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

Scientists discovered a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany where thousands of animal bones were crushed to extract fat, revealing surprisingly advanced survival strategies.

Finger tracings of lines and dots on the soft chalk walls of La Roche-Cotard cave were confirmed as intentional through ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

Genomic analysis of three Neanderthals shows unusually high modern human DNA on the X chromosome offering clues about ...

Deep within Spain's El Sidrón Cave in Asturias, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Neanderthal family massacred over 49,000 years ago. Join paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi and Professor ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

“We found that the birch tar produced by Neanderthals and early humans had antibacterial properties,” write the study authors ...

Archaeologists are used to slow, careful discoveries. Most digs reveal fragments, small pieces that tell only part of the ...

Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by a team of researchers led by Tjaark ...