As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving ...

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

Researchers involved in the study analyzed DNA from the standard human genome, its Neanderthal counterpart and that of a Denisovan, another archaic human closely related to Neanderthals.

Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...

Here’s how it works. Neanderthal genes seen in modern humans may have entered our DNA through an interval of interbreeding starting about 47,000 years ago that lasted nearly 7,000 years ...

Most of us have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. Far from being the lumbering brutes that we once thought they were, a slew of recent studies suggest Neanderthals not only interacted with Homo ...

"In each generation, you can imagine the Neanderthal DNA getting broken into smaller pieces and getting shorter and shorter," says Sümer. "So we can estimate how many generations must have passed ...

Research shows that many humans have Neanderthal DNA. People with European or Asian backgrounds have 1% to 2% and as much as 4% if they are from East Asia — thanks to human-Neanderthal ...

A molar tooth somewhere between 122,700 and 194,400 years old contained Neanderthal-like genes. But the tooth’s DNA was distinct enough to suggest it had come from a separate branch of human ...