Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

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

This genetic legacy, the result of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggests a level of interaction and integration that reshapes our understanding of human history.

Homo sapiens And Homo neanderthalensis they are two species of hominids who shared our planet for tens of thousands of ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered a 'lost' species of human with an abnormally large skull which lived alongside homo sapiens. Known as the Juluren, meaning 'big head people', this ancient species may ...