This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. The hottest — but also ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals, and where ...

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

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University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, ...

A fossil of the inner ear of a six-year-old Neanderthal child that showed signs of Down syndrome seems to indicate that the ancient, now-extinct species were compassionate caregivers, according to a ...