The first Neanderthal skull discovered in modern times hid in a cave in Engis, Belgium until a local doctor pulled it out in 1829. In this video, archaeologist Michel Toussaint describes how the ...

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern ... since that is a partial skeleton ...

Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in ...

Note that the Neanderthal is painted plaster of paris, with the maroon spots indicating pieces missing from the original. The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on ...

Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, have been extinct for thousands of years. But due to interbreeding between the two groups around 55,000 years ago, remnants of our ...

The British navy first identified a Neanderthal skull in Forbes' Quarry Cave in 1848, and excavations at Gorham's Cave began in the early 1990s. Within this cave, excavators found dozens of ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and ... researchers peeked at some of the oldest human genes from the skull of a woman, called Zlatý kůň or Golden horse for a hill ...