By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

Learn how Neanderthals in Europe suffered a loss of genetic diversity during the Ice Age, causing a single lineage to take ...

Researchers have known that Neanderthals used birch tar, a viscous substance derived from birch bark, to glue spear points ...

Birch bark tar is one of the oldest synthetic materials in the world, with some of the earliest finds linked to Neanderthals ...

The Late Neanderthals of Europe who were studied here lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. The researchers analyzed the ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

DNA study reveals Neanderthals who lived 10,000 years apart in Siberia were closely related, offering new insight into their ...

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, ...

Photo: Dusan Mihailovic Entrance to Pešturina Cave in Serbia, where a Neanderthal tooth genetically analyzed in this study ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes.

In 1948, a group of amateurs led by a local headmaster in Lehringen, Germany, uncovered the skeleton of a straight-tusked ...