The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

The new date for the child is consistent with original estimates for the age of the burial, but it has changed our ...

From the deserts of Africa to the icy frontiers of Antarctica, humans have left their mark on every continent. But how and ...

A group of ancient humans with shades of Neanderthal in their physical appearance may have forsaken their home of 300 years following the death of a young member of their clan. As researchers piece ...

Forensic studies show that, at some point, Neanderthals and our direct ancestors — Homo sapiens — crossed paths ... Neanderthal DNA makes up approximately two per cent of the genome of ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits.

An international team of researchers has successfully directly dated the remains of the so-called Lapedo Child, an infant ...

Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and exchanged more profoundly than previously understood.

For example, the child’s lower limbs were much shorter than those of a modern human, and more resembled a Neanderthal. The skull, however, almost fully mirrored a Homo sapien, particularly the ...

The famous skeleton of a child with human and Neanderthal features has now been precisely dated, thanks to a new radiocarbon dating technique that provides a more accurate timeline of the child ...