The NYT reports that the Neanderthal gnenome has mostly been mapped and that we could bring one to life for just $30m. So, Seattle should tax SUVs, fixies, and pit bulls and give the money to some of ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, and researchers are continuing to find clues about why.Mike Kemp/Getty Images ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

"Thorin", one of the last Neanderthals to walk the planet, was part of a previously unknown lineage that was isolated for 50,000 years, a new analysis of his DNA finds. Discovered in 2015 at the ...

Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans to a period starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting over seven millennia. One of the studies ...

Since the late 1800s, we've known that other types of humans once roamed our planet. At that time, scientists recognized that fossils unearthed in caves across Europe belonged to archaic humans now ...

A new paper says genes from our extinct Neanderthal ancestors may contribute to some people being “early risers,” due to breeding between archaic humans like Neanderthals and ancestors of modern ...