Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site in France's Rhône Valley. The study of fossil rhinoceros teeth from this ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new looks at ancient DNA from Neanderthals in northwestern Europe reveals they were more genetically diverse than previously ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

Two separate cave sites in the Levant now show that Neanderthals and modern humans used the same stone tools, hunted the same ...

A new study published in Nature provides the most detailed picture to date of Neanderthal diversity in Western Europe shortly before their extinction. By analyzing genetic data from 27 Neanderthals ...

Carles Lalueza-Fox is at the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona 08019, Spain, and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona. Read the paper: Genetic diversity of late ...

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

Some of the last surviving Neanderthals of north-western Europe may have lived in genetically diverse, well-connected groups, hinting that inbreeding wasn’t a major cause of their extinction about ...