Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...
A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.
They're often depicted as primitive and brutish – but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study. For years, it has been suggested that a difference in head shape meant the ...
A roughly 110,000-year-old Neanderthal male and a roughly 120,000-year-old Neanderthal recovered from the same Siberian cave ...
Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...
Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.” They sit there like blank tape in an ...
NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...
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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 ...