Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is ...

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 ...

A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the human evolution exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum in January 2024. - Mike Kemp/In Pictures/In Pictures via Getty Images The 2010 discovery that ...

Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie 1). Right: CT scan of a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The human face is strikingly distinct ...

A new study has revealed another remarkable aspect of Neanderthal behavior: they not only ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

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 ...