Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 years. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), this intermingling of ...

The enzyme AMPD1 plays a key role in muscle energy production and normal muscular function. Loss of AMPD1 activity due to ...

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...