Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, and one explanation given for their disappearance is that their brains were ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs The Americas DNA study of nearly 200 Indigenous genomes reveals ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

A rare infant skeleton shows Neanderthal infants grew faster than modern humans, with rapid brain and body development.

The story of Neanderthals has long been told in fragments, isolated bones, scattered tools, and DNA strands recovered from distant corners of Eurasia. Now, in a dimly lit cave in southern Poland, ...