Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red, top row) with offspring showing recent Neanderthal ancestry (red, bottom row), imagined as a ...

A high-coverage genome extracted from Belgium’s Goyet Cave, combined with genomic data from a late Neanderthal individual ...

The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

A new analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Neanderthal fossils suggests researchers may need to revisit when and how Neanderthal populations shifted across Europe. The study, published ...

A group of modern humans that arrived in Eurasia far earlier than previously thought also had sex with Neanderthals, according to a study that redraws the migratory timeline for our species. The new ...

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

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Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child's skull discovered in Israel reveals humans and Neanderthals were mixing 100,000 years earlier than thought. (CREDIT: ...

The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of the timing of ancient populations' movements and interactions. Reading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, ...