"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...