The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Grease is the word – at least, it was for Neanderthals living in what is now Germany some 125,000 years ago. New research ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones to extract essential fat during seasons when carbohydrates were scarce.

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

In addition to confirming the time period of interbreeding, the paper shows that “the majority of selection, positive and negative, on Neanderthal ancestry happened very quickly after the gene ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period, which ...

A recent discovery in Germany by researchers from Leiden University and Johannes Gutenberg University is transforming our understanding of history and Neanderthals. This research reveals the earliest ...

For a long period of time, humans were running into Neanderthals, and they were having babies.” Using DNA to time travel Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago.