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

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Researchers claim that they have discovered an entirely new form of ancient human and it has a bigger brain than any we've ...

Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

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

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

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

A new study, which examined hominin fossils from east Asia, has proposed the introduction of new archaic human species named ...