The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

A new analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Neanderthal fossils suggests researchers may need to revisit when and how Neanderthal populations shifted across Europe. The study, published ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

A group of modern humans that arrived in Eurasia far earlier than previously thought also had sex with Neanderthals, according to a study that redraws the migratory timeline for our species. The new ...

Excavations at Tinshemet Cave in central Israel have produced evidence that Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens used the same ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of the child from Israel Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT ...

Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ancient human history in the process. For years, archaeologists have argued over an ancient culture with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Homo sapiens skull (R) and a Homo neanderthalensis (L) on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC ...