Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

In 1993, researchers working inside the Lamalunga cave in Altamura, southern Italy, stumbled across a 10-meter (32-foot) ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

The Altamura Man was discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1993. K.A.R.S.T. PRIN Project Neanderthals had a distinctive appearance. Before they died out roughly 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens’ ...

New research suggests that maggots may be the secret ingredient responsible for extremely high nitrogen values found in Neanderthal remains. People who study Neanderthals have often wondered about ...

For years, researchers analyzing traumatic injuries found on Neanderthal fossils believed they had lived dangerous, violent lives. But a new study reveals that early modern humans and Neanderthals ...

Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone? While there's plenty of evidence ...