Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

Unlike Neanderthals, human facial growth halts in adolescence—shrinking jaws and midfaces over time. This evolutionary shift ...

Research has determined Neanderthals at least had the bone structure consistent with the ability to hear at frequencies that ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than ... up some unusual-looking bones. Subsequent study ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In humans, facial growth slows down during childhood and stops after ...

Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia reveal that Neanderthals were top-level carnivores who obtained most of their dietary ...

Tom Higham, an archaeological dating expert at the University of Oxford in the U.K., along with Pinhasi and an international team of colleagues, dated almost 200 Neanderthal bone, charcoal, and tool ...

a normal process in bone remodeling that helps the tissue retain its structure and strength. Related: 28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after ...

Neanderthal bones and skeletons have previously been found alongside Quina stone tools at several sites in Western Europe including at the namesake site of La Quina in southwest France.