A study from U.S. and Chinese researchers suggests Neanderthals and early modern humans probably had similar cognitive ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Somewhere around 47,000 years ago, in mountain valleys and along migration corridors stretching from Iran to central Europe, ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the human evolution exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum in January 2024. - Mike Kemp/In Pictures/In Pictures via Getty Images The 2010 discovery that ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) shared the Earth for thousands of years, walking the same landscapes ...

A new study has revealed new insights into the mating patterns and preferences of early humans. The study, published in the journal Science on Feb. 26, found that when Neanderthals and early humans ...

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

(CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at ...