Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.

Neanderthals may have had big, bold noses, but new research shows those features weren’t sculpted by the cold after all. The ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

Ancestral Skills, Modern Traits Interestingly, these genetic traits align closely with Neanderthal behaviors. Archaeologists studying Neanderthal stone tool-making note that their Levallois technique ...

Of the 10 burials, each person possessed a different combination of H. sapiens and Neanderthal traits, Hershkovitz said. While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Just a few Neanderthal DNA tweaks boosted facial gene activity, revealing how ancient genetics still shape human faces today.

(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 ...