New research suggests pregnancy complications, including preeclampsia, may have played a key role in the extinction of the ...

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

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

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

Deep in your muscles, an enzyme called AMPD1 helps turn chemical fuel into usable energy. When it does not work well, muscles tire faster.

Archaeologists breached a Gibraltar cave chamber sealed for 40,000 years and found bones exactly where they fell.

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 ...

Neanderthals lived in small, isolated groups where survival outweighed social choice. Archaeological evidence suggests that mating opportunities were shaped by proximity, group size, and physical ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...