New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals ...

Tune in to see world-renowned outdoorsman and author Steven Rinella as he dives deep into history’s greatest and most perplexing wilderness mysteries on the premiere of the news investigative ...

“Hunting History with Steven Rinella” follows the outdoorsman and TV personality on a quest to better understand lingering mysteries of yesteryear — think sunken ships, lost ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports finds that incompatibility between the blood groups of Neanderthals and modern humans may have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more we learn about this group of archaic humans, the more similarities ...

Old Carvings on Limestone Found Deep Inside a Cave Are Oldest Known Neanderthal Prints In 2024, researchers announced their ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their ...