New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was ...

Recent research is challenging the long-held view that Neanderthals were strictly carnivorous, revealing evidence of a more ...

Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...