When our ancient ancestors made the journey out of Africa and took their first steps in Eurasia, they came face-to-face with Neanderthals for the first time – and boy, did they hit it off. In fact, ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of stone tools in Caverna Generosa, a cave sitting 1,450 meters up in the ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted ...

Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of Neanderthal bones in northern EU.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

An international study, published in the journal Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group, has revealed a new Neanderthal site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Algarve coast of ...

For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...

If you have diabetes, you may have a Neanderthal to thank/blame, according to recent genome studies. Science and Nature today published independent studies of Neanderthal DNA, both of which shed some ...