A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

Professor Chris Stringer, an expert in human evolution at the Natural History Museum who was not involved in the study, says that this changes our understanding of many ancient human fossils. “This ...

Several scientific studies confirm that both species coexisted for seven millennia and even reproduced among themselves.

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor’s Study Provides a New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding with ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

“Speciation is a process, in which one parent species creates categorically different descendant species,” explains Chris. “In the context of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, we need to regard ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when ...