More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...

The earliest Neanderthal-like fossils are about 430,000 years old, but major parts of the Neanderthal origin story remain unclear. Altamura Man's skull might change that.

What were Neanderthals really like—and why did they go extinct? These ancient hominids, who disappeared 40,000 years ago, were once thought to be brutish. But recent discoveries have hinted they ...

Face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed by scientists The reconstructed face is closer than expected to that of modern-day humans, meaning it’s “perhaps easier to see how ...

We lived side by side for a time before the Neanderthals died out around 40,000 years ago. Shorter and stockier than us, they had large noses for humidifying and warming the cold air from the ...

The female side showed more genetic differences than the male side — which means females may have moved around more, Skov said. It's possible that when a female Neanderthal found a mate, she ...

Neanderthals are distant cousins of humans that lived between 430,000 and 40,000 years ago. ... It's the first time that Neanderthal relatives have been sequenced side-by-side.

The cast of a Neanderthal skull on display at the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology in Germany on January 24, 2023. Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images Get the Popular Science ...

The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z was recreated after Cambridge archeologists excavated her body from an Iraqi cave. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

And, in Neanderthals, it also shows a puzzling link with ancient Homo sapiens. The oldest Neanderthal mitochondrial genomes we have come from fossils found in Spain dating to around 430,000 years ago.