By sequencing the genomes of dozens of people who lived between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, researchers found that Neanderthals had a rare blood group that could have been fatal to their newborns.

The remains this model is based on were found, in 1823, smeared with this naturally occurring iron oxide pigment and buried with periwinkle shells and fragments of ivory rods and rings. The ...

Genetic material recovered from 40,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Romania harbors about 6-9 percent Neanderthal DNA, the study reports. Some of this DNA was contained in three relatively large ...

However, we've never actually found Neanderthal clothing or clothing ... which also increased the amount of body heat ...

Persistent infections, meaning diseases that don’t immediately kill you but instead slowly chip away at your body ... of Neanderthals and still detect the viruses that were present. Briones downloaded ...

Around 40,000 years ago, modern humans made their way into Europe, sweeping through the continent and, eventually, driving to extinction our close relatives, the Neanderthals. Exactly how that ...

At the site of Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, a small assemblage of mollusks was found, in addition to a few marine mammal bones (monk seal and dolphin) with cut-marks, indicating that Neanderthals ...

Only a handful of Neanderthal tools bear signs of adhesive, but experts say the process could have been widespread. The tool, found in the Netherlands, has spent the last 50,000 years under the ...