N eanderthals managed to survive in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago, but research indicates their population began ...

The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that ...

Close examination of a pebble excavated in central Spain suggests it may have been painted to look like a face tens of ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at ...

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

Learn more about one of the oldest possible art pieces with a fingerprint from Europe, which may represent a human face.

A face-shaped pebble marked with a red dot that was discovered in a Spanish cave may be proof that Neanderthals engaged in ...