When modern human populations traveled from Africa to the Middle East, they are thought to have shared both the timeline and the landscape with the Neanderthals, marking a period of coexistence ...

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of three distinct types of humans has been demonstrated: Neanderthals, ...

Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens. By analyzing traces of DNA left behind by ...

A mysterious feature in Neanderthals is forcing scientists to rethink their entire evolutionary story.

Scientists have analyzed amino acids preserved in snail shells to determine a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden ...

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

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

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed “Thorin,” found by Slimak managed to stay totally isolated from groups ...

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.