Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your D ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered to between 27,700 and ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, ...

That was a radical notion at the time, but advances in genetics have since proven those populations existed — and people today still carry Neanderthal DNA. But trying to figure out when exactly ...

The Gila monster, found primarily in the American Southwest and Mexico, is one of them. Gastroenterologist Jean-Pierre ...

And those genomes are really interesting to analyze, because they also turned out to have, still, very long chunks of Neanderthal DNA. I mentioned it before—we could already show that about 15 ...

While people in Asia and Europe carry relatively more Neanderthal DNA, Africans carry it as well, according to scientists. "We examined the relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans in ...