A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Israel suggests a possible Neanderthal-Homo sapien hybrid child. Unearthed in Skhul Cave, the 5-year-old's remains display Homo sapien cranial features alongside ...

The area in which Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred has been identified, with an international team of researchers believing the magic might have happened in the Late Pleistocene era.

While significantly stockier than modern humans Neanderthals weren’t generally taller or likely more significantly hirsute than contemporary homo sapien sapiens ...

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely helped the child survive to the age of 6 ...

One group of scientists examined genomes from three female and three male Homo sapiens individuals who lived around 45,000 years ago based on bones found in a cave at the German town of Ranis, and ...

A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get ... a hypothesis proposing that the Chiari skull shape might have been inherited from extinct humans who interbred with Homo sapiens.

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The Neanderthal model is based on La Ferrassie 1 and was created by LB and TR. Credit: Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaf009 ...

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last Neanderthals, and ...

Neanderthals, or Homo neanderthalensis, lived during the Paleolithic period lived between 430,000 and 40,000 years ago. They were “clever people” with big brains and buried their dead, Conde ...