Neanderthals were intelligent, strong, and skilled early humans. From tool-making to burial rituals, discover 10 fascinating facts about our extinct relatives and their lasting legacy.

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than originally thought.

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

Neanderthal population, a species that thrived in Eurasia for over 250,000 years, experienced a dramatic decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Recent studies indicate that this ...

Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now Israel, a new study finds. .

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

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The discovery, made just east of Tel Aviv, challenges long-held assumptions about early human culture and interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. This excavation follows years of research ...

Scientists examining an ancient cave have made a discovery about humanity's history that dates back some 110,000 years. Excavations took place in the Tinshemet Cave, a newly excavated Middle ...