The gap in the rock was barely wide enough for a person to squeeze through. Behind it, sealed by tens of thousands of years ...

In the neverending battle against bacterial infections, scientists have found an unlikely ally: the long-extinct Neanderthals ...

Before Neanderthals went extinct, they experienced a major upheaval that resulted in just one of their genetic lineages surviving in Europe and then expanding across the continent, a new study shows.

The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or the postpartum period, doctors propose in a new study ...

Figure 1: Computer simulations of population density of Neanderthals (left) and Homo sapiens (right) 43,000 years ago (upper) and 38,000 years ago (lower). Orange (green) circles indicate ...

In life, this Neanderthal family from Northern Spain struggled as their species declined. In death, bone evidence shows they became food for another Neanderthal group. NOVA is available to stream on ...

Modern humans exhibited higher growth rates and migrated more quickly than did Neanderthals, thus permitting them to populate and repopulate areas more efficiently. It is impossible to ascertain the ...

The first Neanderthals emerged approximately 300,000 years ago. They settled in large parts of Europe and spread as far as southern Siberia. “We still don’t have a comprehensive understanding of ...