Last Neanderthal location. Many archaeologists think the last Neanderthals lived in southern Iberia because sites in this region look a little different than those elsewhere in Europe.

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may have lived as recently as 42,000 years ago.

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

They also cast light on Neanderthal social organization, indicating that there was limited, if any, interaction between different Neanderthal populations in their last millennia, even though these ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as 125,000 years ago, smashed the marrow-rich bones into fragments with stone ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...