Italian climber Stefano Ghioslfi has repeated 'Neanderthal', the 9b at Santa Linya in Spain freed in 2009 by Chris Sharma.

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

Neanderthal population, a species that thrived in Eurasia for over 250,000 years, experienced a dramatic decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Recent studies indicate that this ...

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later ...

KHORRAMABAD, 12 March (BelTA - IRNA) - Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal habitation dating back 40,000 to 80,000 years in Qamari Cave, located in Khorramabad in the southwestern ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

The lactase gene codes for an enzyme that enables humans to digest the sugars in milk in adulthood. (Image credit: Oscar Wong ...