This area includes one of the best-known Neanderthal sites, Shanidar Cave, where the remains of ten Neanderthal individuals ...

Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where this took place has been hard to pinpoint. A ...

Furthermore, while Homo sapiens always laid corpses on their backs in a “flexed posture”, Neanderthals buried their dead in a ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

A new genetic analysis revealed that Thorin’s community was isolated from other groups and diverged from more well-studied ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.

This discovery adds an important piece to the puzzle of Neanderthal history. Previous studies of Neanderthals in more remote ...

they coexisted with anatomically modern humans and even interbred with us. "Until now, the story has been that at the time of the extinction there was just one Neanderthal population that was ...

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as ...

Neanderthal remains found in France support the theory that their isolated, antisocial lifestyle and inbreeding contributed ...