Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right ...

The astonishingly well-preserved nasal cavity of a Neanderthal in Italy has finally settled one of the great debates in ...

A single Neanderthal skeleton pulled from a cave in the Rhône Valley has opened a window onto a branch of our cousins that ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ...

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

A fossilized Neanderthal discovered in a cave system in the Rhône Valley, France, represents an ancient and previously undescribed lineage that diverged from other currently known Neanderthals around ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some ...

All cultures, however primitive, have used glues, resins and pitches obtained from various plants for their mechanical or medicinal properties. Neanderthals were no exception. This species commonly ...