Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Neanderthals, our distant cousins, first appeared in Eurasia around 400,000 years ago. They’ve long been portrayed as sturdy, but brutish and dim-witted: the ultimate caveman. But ever since the ...

A few thousand miles north of where our species took shape, another archaic human group called Eurasia home: Neanderthals. From England to Central Asia, Neanderthals developed their own culture to ...

The extent to which Neanderthals were capable of such abstract ... Noting that modern human kids are often passionate about amassing stickers, sea shells, and even bottle tops, the researchers ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

It's not the first time that Neanderthals have been found to collect ... They could even have been toys for kids, as there's evidence of children living in the cave. In short, the reasons for ...

New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals may have been diving under the sea for clams. It adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these ancient people as brutish ...

Neanderthals may once have been considered to be our inferior, brutish cousins, but a new study is the latest to suggest they were smarter than we thought - especially when it came to hunting. The ...