A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

It's hard to imagine that just 40,000 years ago, there was another species of humans on Earth. Modern humans and Neanderthals lived amongst each other, they interbred, lived in the same caves, hunted ...

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We still don’t fully understand why Neanderthals became extinct while our species thrived, although low fertility rates are believed to have played a role in the demise of our prehistoric cousins. The ...

Neanderthals died out some 30,000 years ago, but their genes live on within many of us. African people have very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors didn't make the trip through Eurasia, ...

Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-sized versions of the cavemen's brains. Why ...