Despite surviving for hundreds of thousands of years and conquering much of Eurasia, Neanderthals were actually pretty few ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton from southern France has reshaped the story of how Europe’s last Neanderthals ...

A study incorporating fresh DNA data and archaeological evidence has revealed that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a massive population turnover. The research shows that late Neanderthals ...

If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

New findings show that they systematically managed resources and reveal what they hunted, something even scientists did not expect.

(CNN) — Neanderthals may not have been that different from us, after all. New evidence reveals that they created the world's oldest known cave paintings and even wore seashells as body ornaments. Both ...

Neanderthals may have used birch tar for more than tools. New research shows it could slow bacteria and help protect wounds.

Researchers propose migration and social behaviors may explain this pattern in early human-Neanderthal interactions Modern humans of European and Asian ancestry still carry up to 2% Neanderthal DNA ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

A new finding has revealed that the way that some of us deal with the flu may come from a long-lost DNA line that comes from ...