Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

Their simulations mapped out possible routes Neanderthals could have followed to reach Asia, and suggest that by traveling ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

Neanderthals may have made art just like modern humans do, researchers in Spain have said. The findings, published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences journal, challenge existing ...

Neanderthals and modern humans interbred for several millennia, shortly after the ancestors of all non-Africans moved into Eurasia, according to two new studies. Although these Homo sapiens ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...