When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skull from Iraq known as Shanidar Z. A new study finds that ...

Neanderthals died out around 40,000 years ago, but a new study reveals that their genetic legacy continues to influence our brains today. Chiari malformation type 1 is a rare brain condition where the ...

The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil examined for the study, “all of them manifest what we call ‘mosaic morphology,’ in the sense that they have both Neanderthal and ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a survival advantage.

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...