He believes Neanderthal populations shrank until the last survivors were integrated into modern human communities. This ...

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

For many years, Gibraltar, a British territory on the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, was assumed to be the last Neanderthal holdout. The British navy first identified a Neanderthal skull ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

New research highlights Denisovan genetic contributions to modern humans, offering survival advantages like hypoxia tolerance and immunity. These findings underscore a complex history of interbreeding ...

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 ...

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 ...