Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on a bizarre-looking Neanderthal skull reveals that a long-standing theory about Neanderthal noses doesn't pass the sniff test. The skull comes ...

Neanderthals have long been portrayed as cold-adapted Ice Age specialists, their broad faces and big noses cast as natural radiators that warmed frigid air before it hit the lungs. New work on a ...

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TEL AVIV, Israel • Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Neanderthal fossils suggest that they must have endured a lot of pain. “When you look at adult Neanderthal fossils, particularly the bones of the arms and skull, you see [evidence of] fractures,” says ...

While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct species. Among other contrasts, Neanderthal ...