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

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to ...

Neanderthal skeletons have both obvious and subtle differences from those of H. sapiens, leading scientists in 1864 to assign them the species name Homo neanderthalensis.

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

He is based on 40,000-year-old Homo neanderthalensis remains found at Spy in Belgium. Our Belgian Neanderthal is in his twenties and stands 155cm tall The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel in Israel. Known as Tabun 1, this Neanderthal specimen is around 130,000 years old. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia ...

A recent study on the geological and stratigraphic context of the L’Enclos site, located in Mainvilliers (in northern France, near Chartres), has shed new light on human occupation in the region ...

Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. Train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois spends a day spotting freight trains in Kuala Lumpur.