Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery ...

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as ...

A new study published in Genome Biology and Evolution found links between the DNA of ancient hominids called Neanderthals and ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.

Neanderthal remains found in France support the theory that their isolated, antisocial lifestyle and inbreeding contributed ...

This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient ...

Archaeologists have long known that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where this took place has been hard to pinpoint. A ...

A new study supports the idea that Neanderthals likely went extinct because of how they lived — in isolation. The early human ...

A new genetic analysis revealed that Thorin’s community was isolated from other groups and diverged from more well-studied ...

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

This discovery adds an important piece to the puzzle of Neanderthal history. Previous studies of Neanderthals in more remote ...

A fossil Neanderthal named for a Tolkien character indicates that geographically close groups of the ancient humans didn't ...