The results were grossly inaccurate, stemming from AI pulling its information from outdated stereotypes in lieu of paywalled ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

It is impressive how Generative AI can conjure a “day in the life” image of a Neanderthal in seconds. But a new study suggests those scenes often come with a dash of built-in time travel. Researchers ...

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating ...

A fossil of the inner ear of a six-year-old Neanderthal child that showed signs of Down syndrome seems to indicate that the ancient, now-extinct species were compassionate caregivers, according to a ...

We know that some groups of modern humans (Homo sapiens or H. sapiens) still carry some sequences in their genomes that are derived from Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis). This comes from instances ...

Discovered in a rock shelter in central Spain in July 2022, the stone measures more than eight inches long and more than four inches wide. Álvarez-Alonso et al. / Archaeological and Anthropological ...