A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes. Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount ...

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together.

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman has been recreated by a team of archeologists from the University of Cambridge after they excavated her body in 2018. The rare discovery of the ...

Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...

Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in ...