This updated timeline for Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding "shifts and narrows the possible range of time when humans spread to places like present-day China and Australia," said NBC News.

Why did Neanderthals collect these fossils? It’s a puzzling question that scientists are still trying to answer. The study proposes a range of reasons, from simple decoration to economic motives ...

Some researchers argue that this physique also gave the Neanderthals greater power in their arms and legs for close-range ambushes during hunting. Despite their reputation as being primitive 'cavemen' ...

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals, and ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. And even today humans are left with some Neanderthal genes, many of ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of medium ... These stone-tipped spears were probably used at close-range for thrusting, or thrown short distances as part of an ambush hunting strategy ...

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 ...

“And what’s really exciting is that even though there was this broader scope of traits that was considered, they point to effects of Neanderthal DNA on similar systems to what’s been seen previously.” ...