A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

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

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

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

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

The scientists identified the bottleneck by analyzing changes in the shape of the Neanderthal inner ear over time. When they analyzed the inner ears of Neanderthal skulls, they discovered that ...

I know there’s probably a lot, but we have an image of a Neanderthal in our heads, but early Homo sapiens also looked a bit different than we look right now as well. So what made us different ...