New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave ...

"In our study," explains anthropologist and anatomist Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University, "we show that the child's ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who ...

Learn about the five-year-old child’s skull that has drastically changed the timeline of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interbreeding.

A groundbreaking international study has uncovered the oldest physical evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, pushing back the timeline for their biological interactions by ...

For most of our history, Homo sapiens haven’t been the only humans on the planet. At least half a dozen other species are members of the genus Homo, all now extinct. Our closest evolutionary kin, ...