Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

This last culture of Neanderthals would have lived alongside a large group of Homo sapiens who arrived in Europe from Africa and began spreading throughout Europe to Spain, Italy, and France. This ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In humans, facial growth slows down during childhood and stops after ...

A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing ... "Identifying key developmental changes allows us to understand how species-specific traits emerged throughout human evolution", says ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.They were ...