Learn more about a new simulation that predicts how Neanderthals migrated from Eastern Europe to Eurasia.

New research reveals that our extinct Neanderthal relatives were surprisingly savvy navigators who used rivers to zip across ...

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, ...

Now, however, they’re revising the timeline ... and used by humans’ closest prehistoric relatives, this revelation would add to the growing body of evidence that “Neanderthal brain ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

A red dot on a face-shaped stone in Spain may well break records. Approximately 43,000 years old, this dot could be the ...

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, ...

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