A fossil fragment from Spain suggests a Neanderthal child may have had Down syndrome and survived for years despite severe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child’s skull discovered in Israel reveals humans and Neanderthals were mixing 100,000 years earlier than thought. (CREDIT: ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

The shooting happened just after 8 p.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Loop 410 near Starcrest Drive and Perrin Beitel. The child, described in a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal ...