We might consider Neanderthals to be ancient and unknowable relatives, but humans were once on very intimate terms with them.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

The results, along with those of subsequent studies, indicated that Neanderthals contributed little, if any, DNA to modern humans. Instead, they appear to have been displaced by modern humans ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Modern-day humans can have up to 4% DNA in their ... red hair may also be more likely to have Neanderthal DNA. Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought, according to new research by a UCD-based archaeologist.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies belong to a previously unknown human lineage that ... The Takarkori DNA also showed traces of Neanderthal ancestry that could only have been acquired outside of Africa ...

Neanderthal bones and skeletons have previously been found alongside ... to seeing more new finds and more certain human fossil or ancient DNA or paleoproteomic (ancient protein) evidences in ...