Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, curiosity about these ancient hominins has surged. How did they ...

An Open Day organised by the Portimão Museum will allow history buffs to discover archaeological remains in the Gruta da ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

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Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans, Neanderthal communities appear to have been surprisingly insular, according to past research, keeping to themselves more often than not.

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as Thorin wandered the Earth up to 42,000 years ago. Now a new study in the ...

A clue lies in how much harder it was to grow up as a Neanderthal kid, suggests a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports.

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...