A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

The most complete Neanderthal skull ever examined has given researchers something they have never had before: a virtually ...

Belgian cave analysis shows Neanderthal cannibalism involving nonlocal women and children who were killed and eaten 45,000 ...

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

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

Evidence from a prehistoric cave system indicates non-ritualistic cannibalism of Neanderthal women and children.

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...