Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

The so-called "Viking disease" causes the fingers of many aging northern European men to lock up in a bent position, and researchers now think they know why. Genetic variants inherited from ...

Scientists studying ancient disease have uncovered one of the earliest examples of spillover -- when a disease jumps from an animal to a human -- and it happened to a Neanderthal man who likely got ...

Quince años después del descubrimiento de un nuevo tipo de humano, los científicos hallaron su ADN en un cráneo fosilizado. ¿La clave? La placa dental. By Carl Zimmer Fifteen years after the discovery ...

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a human face. This is the scenario presented by archaeologists in a paper ...

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Neanderthals, an early species of human, interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans more often and more recently than previously thought, a study published Monday in Nature found. The research ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

You've got questions, we've got answers (sorta). You might want to take a seat for this one Early in Kingdom Hearts III, series primary protagonist Sora returns to his spaceship with his Duck Dad ...