We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals ...

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

The genome of a Neanderthal named Thorin suggested he was part of an unknown lineage. He and his community stayed isolated ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals ...

The Neanderthal was found in 2015 at a cave known as "Grotte Mandrin" in southern France's Rhône Valley. The find is now being reported in the scientific literature for the first time in a study ...

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

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Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species. The remains ...

A long-running argument between archaeologists and geneticists has finally been settled - and the answer could help explain ...

A clue lies in how much harder it was to grow up as a Neanderthal kid, suggests a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports.