In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

New study shows that a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals impairs the function of a key enzyme involved in muscle ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.