The genome of a Neanderthal named Thorin suggested he was part of an unknown lineage. He and his community stayed isolated ...

Ever since their discovery in the 19th century, Neanderthals have been unfairly tarnished as the heavy-browed, brutish ...

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where this took place has been hard to pinpoint. A ...

Scientists continue to investigate "cave men" and origin story of human beings and they believe they may have discovered where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred. The two species are long thought ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

A new study supports the idea that Neanderthals likely went extinct because of how they lived — in isolation. The early human ...

Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species. The remains ...

This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient ...

it contributed to the demise of the last Neanderthals, since their already small populations were losing reproductive age individuals to the other species, without any replenishment in return ...

Neanderthals populated Europe and Asia for a long time -- including a decent stint living alongside early modern humans -- until they abruptly died off 40,000 years ago. That was the last moment when ...