Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...

Here are 10 major Neanderthal findings from 2025 — and what they teach us about our own evolution. Homo erectus H. sapiens ...

Today, we can still see the genetic legacy of these interbreeding events: approximately 2% of the genomes of people outside of Africa comes from Neanderthals. Thanks to fossil discoveries and advances ...

People have been fascinated by Neanderthals ever since we discovered their bones in a German cave in the mid-19th century. Their stocky bodies and huge heads give us a fun-house-mirror glimpse into ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...