Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

Neandertal babies were born similar in size to modern human newborns. Their bones, however, matured much more rapidly in the ...

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

For decades, scientists have known that most people of non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, evidence ...

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused their disappearance ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of the harsh environment they evolved in A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' ...

Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than humans — which helped us gain an advantage over our cousins, scientists say Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million ...