As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

National Geographic asked former Project Runway contestants to design clothes for Wilma, a reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman. The clothes are cute, but the comments from readers are the real treat ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only in bones, but in the dirt beneath their feet. By treating cave sediments ...

For decades, Neanderthals have been cast as the supporting characters in our evolutionary story. They thrived across Ice Age Europe and Western Asia for hundreds of thousands of years until modern ...