When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skull from Iraq known as Shanidar Z. A new study finds that ...

Humans did not arrive in Australia 65,000 years ago, and likely didn't reach the land down under until around 50,000 years ago, a controversial new paper reports. The reasoning behind the finding is ...

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In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...

Scientists have uncovered a genetic variant, inherited from Neanderthals, that may limit athletic performance. The mutation is thought to affect roughly 8% of modern-day Europeans and influences the ...

PHILADELPHIA — In an unprecedented feat of forensic anthropology, European researchers extracted enough DNA from two Neanderthal skulls to suggest their owners sported red hair and white skin back ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

A Harvard geneticist discussed cloning Neanderthals, but experts find hang-ups. Jan. 22, 2013— -- A Harvard geneticist has raised eyebrows by declaring that scientists could make a Neanderthal ...

I've always wondered if Bigfoot or Sasquatch or any such "monster" people claim to see is a Neanderthal/human hybrid ? Or maybe the species survived but in very few numbers and they know enough to ...