One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

However, Neanderthals tended to bury their dead deeper in caves, whereas H. sapiens were buried in cave entrances or rock ...

The Neanderthal Museum conveys that the species was actually ... We always understood ourselves as being their lawyers, their ...

In a special series, BBC Earth recreated the last days of the last Neanderthal. Video by Pierangelo Pirak In a disarmingly frank interview, Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller recounts his story of ...

Bones of cave animals and traces of a Neanderthal settlement believed to be the oldest in Slovenia have been found in a karst ...

A recently published scientific paper has confirmed the close genetic links between a Neanderthal population in the Rhone ...

Following from these results, the European TV Culture Channel, ARTE, has produced a documentary on Thorin and its discovery. Based in Strasbourg, ARTE has a monthly viewing of around 6.6 million. The ...

In 2010, the first draft of the Neanderthal genome was published ... “This was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade,” said Dr Linda Ongaro, Postdoctoral Research ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered "hominin" group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

A comet not seen since Neanderthal times has made a spectacular appearance over ... This celestial visitor orbits the Sun once every 80,000 years and made its last pass when humans were first ...