Neanderthals lived for hundreds of thousands of years before mysteriously disappearing around 40,000 years ago—and scientists ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.” They sit there like blank tape in an ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

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

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early ...

Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...