A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

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

An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses ...

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline.

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys and apes that evolved in Africa, Asia and Europe. It turns out that a ...

Humans aren’t the only ones who kiss—monkeys do it, polar bears do it, and now research suggests that the practice may go ...

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...