Maybe Neanderthals were not wiped out in a catastrophic event some 40,000 years ago. In fact, perhaps they never truly disappeared in a definite sense. New research has examined the flow of genes ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

THE cavemen were just as intelligent as modern humans – and didn’t die out because of inferior brains, experts say. For years ...

Neanderthals survived from roughly 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, when they mysteriously disappeared. Mike Kemp / In Pictures / Getty Images Neanderthals lived successfully across Eurasia for hundreds ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...