Research by the Department of Anthropology at the...  ...Smithsonian natural history museum shows us that Neanderthals were not all that different from modern humans in...  ...d tubers, trapped in plaque buildup on fossilized Neanderthal teeth unearthed in northern Europe and Iraq. M...  ...erimentally-cooked...

A new theory says that volcanic activity in Europe...  ...'s past may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals . Several volcanos erupted in a short period of ti...  ...Mountains about 40,000 years ago. Populations of Neanderthals , who lived mainly in Europe, may have been reduce...  ...ng mammals, wh...

That's the provocative title of an article in...  ...ations involved. Extensive information about the Neanderthal genetic code is available, and the technologic pr...  ...ished, and whether it should be done at all. The Neanderthals broke away from the lineage of modern humans arou...  ...umans around 450,000...

Scientists from the U.K., on an archaeological dig...  ...have made a discovery that seems to suggest that Neanderthals wore makeup.The team report in Proceedings of the...  ...NAS) that shells containing pigment residues were Neanderthal make-up containers. The team says its find bu...  ...s. The team s...

The standard theories of why Neandertals disappeared 28,000 years ago don't hold up, so scientists are looking in new directions. The assimilation/interbreeding theory should've yielded some DNA evidence, but there is no...

Researchers from the Universite de la Mediterranee...  ...diterranee-CNRS-EFS in France analyzed the DNA of Neanderthal fossils and found that the species might actually...  ...of several "races":We tend to think of Neanderthals as one species of cavemen-like creatures, but now...  ...re actually at le...

Neanderthals and their precursor, an early human species calle...