Buried in a cave for over 130,000 years, a perfectly preserved Neanderthal skull has shattered a major belief about how our ...

The first complete genetic portrait of a so‑called “last Neanderthal” is forcing scientists to redraw the map of our origins, ...

The astonishingly well-preserved nasal cavity of a Neanderthal in Italy has finally settled one of the great debates in ...

Neanderthals were cannibals. Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear t ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...

They found the act of kissing can be traced all the way back to the last common ancestor of humans and other great apes, ...

A remarkably intact Neanderthal, preserved in Italian cave calcite for over 130,000 years, has revealed that their famously ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.

Neanderthals are usually seen as brutish and primitive, but research now suggests our ancestors kissed often - and even with ...

For decades, anthropologists have wondered whether kissing is an evolutionary thing or a unique cultural quirk we humans ...

Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far back as 21.5 – 16.9 million years ago. Clearly, they were onto a good thing ...

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