Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the ...

A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. Bryant, hoping ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...