An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

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

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

The astonishingly well-preserved nasal cavity of a Neanderthal in Italy has finally settled one of the great debates in ...

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 ...

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 ...