We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans, Neanderthal communities appear to have been surprisingly insular, according to past research, keeping to themselves more often than not. One group ...

Neanderthals have had a tough time of it. Early humans played a role in their extinction, but the story didn’t end there.

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

The genome of a Neanderthal named Thorin suggested he was part of an unknown lineage. He and his community stayed isolated ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

The Neanderthal was found in 2015 at a cave known as "Grotte Mandrin" in southern France's Rhône Valley. The find is now being reported in the scientific literature for the first time in a study ...

A new study supports a growing theory that the Neanderthals' downfall was not due to environmental changes or disease but their antisocial lifestyle.

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Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species. The remains ...

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...

Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans, Neanderthal communities appear to have been surprisingly insular, according to past research, keeping to themselves more often than not.