New evidence from a cave in southern Türkiye suggests that Neanderthals and early modern humans lived in strikingly similar ...

DNA recovered from remains in Belgium and France offers a very different picture of Neanderthal life during the species’ final millennia.

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

Analysis of DNA from Neanderthal bones revealed that a group in Western Europe were surprisingly healthy, shortly before they ...

Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

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

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

The excavation of a cave in southern Türkiye revealed evidence of shared technologies, survival strategies, and even symbolic ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.