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 ...

For decades, the prevailing image of Homo neanderthalensis has been that of a resourceful but cognitively limited hunter, focused largely on big game. But a recent experiment by European ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a series of animal skulls in a Neanderthal cave in Spain, sparking new questions about the rituals and symbolic practices of early humans. The skulls, some of which ...