By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

For a brief time in history, humans and Neanderthals shared the Earth, swapping DNA, but the details of that swapping might not be what you expect.

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens. Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis), based on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...

An international research team, led by Professor Cosimo Posth of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

National Geographic asked former Project Runway contestants to design clothes for Wilma, a reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman. The clothes are cute, but the comments from readers are the real treat ...