A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

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

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals ...

An Open Day organised by the Portimão Museum will allow history buffs to discover archaeological remains in the Gruta da ...

A comet that was last visible from Earth when Neanderthals were alive could be spotted with the naked eye this weekend, ...

Researchers sequenced the Neanderthal genome for the first time, and it was apparent that ... Southwest Asia and Southeast Europe during this period. They wanted to see where the two species ...

We might consider Neanderthals to be ancient and unknowable relatives, but humans were once on very intimate terms with them. Our ancestors, for example, had babies with the shorter, stockier ...

A once in a life time event is about to happen this weekend as a comet that hasn't been seen in 80,000 years is set to grace Irish skies.

“The genetics was sure the Neanderthal we called Thorin was 105,000 ... reason Thorin’s DNA seemed to come from an earlier time period than it actually did. Until now, geneticists thought ...

But because modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped in time and space for thousands of ... That overlap occurred during a bleak period in Neanderthal history that ended with their downfall ...

When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first intact remains of ...