We know more facts about Neanderthals than any other extinct humans. Many thousands of their artefacts and fossils have been found, including several nearly complete skeletons. We also know about ...

Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting. Researchers have unearthed a collection of 15 marine fossils, which seem ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a passion for accumulating stuff in the same way that ...

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 human. Find out how these lifelike ...

There is evidence of this bottleneck event and its consequences in Neandertal fossils from the site of El Sidrón in Spain, where 13 closely related individuals exhibit evidence of 17 different ...

These samples add to the small collection of modern human genomes from six sites that date to or before the disappearance of Neanderthals from the fossil record around 40,000 years ago.

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil The tool was made by Neanderthal groups living at the icy limits of their range, say the authors of the study. At the time, this area would have been part of ...

In a study of critical rearrangements of our chromosomes and select variations in our genes, the team looked at genome databases built from Neanderthal fossils, Denisovan fossils, and modern human ...