Genetic legacy of our ancient cousins could be making it harder for some people to reach their athletic potential.

For Neanderthal hunters equipped with wood and stone hunting tools, the place was a veritable buffet. And you might expect ...

A Neanderthal variant in an enzyme involved in energy production has been linked to ​​a 50% lower probability of achieving ...

Is it possible that a certain Neanderthal gene protects against the severity of Covid-19? This gene could be responsible for ...

New research reveals Neanderthals had varying food preferences and spiced up their diets by using different food preparation ...

As you all know, new discoveries are constantly being made and sometimes we have new insights on pieces that were discovered in the past, which in my personal opinion still qualify as being a new ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

Neanderthals living in Israel some 70,000 years ago butchered prey in markedly different ways, suggesting they had dinner preferences ...

Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived ...

It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

Racist thug Robert Barone battered a taxi driver in a row over the £8.60 fare. The 51-year-old dad shouted a racial slur at ...