Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

A paper published in the journal Science found that these ancestors had an extensive process of extracting fat from animal ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...