Neanderthals lived for hundreds of thousands of years before mysteriously disappearing around 40,000 years ago—and scientists ...

Neanderthals were much more intelligent than previously thought and were skilled enough to control fire and use it to cook food, according to a new study which suggests they lived closer to a ...

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, they were in for a surprise. The baby, known as Amud 7, was only about six months old when ...

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that Neanderthals living in two nearby caves in northern Israel—butchered their food in noticeably different ways. Despite using the same ...