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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Peaches were green; carrots were slender and yellow. Where are we headed next? Well, bananas with a vaccine punch, and ...

In children up until around the age of 7, it is common to reverse the letters b, d, q, p, and the numbers 9, 5, and 7, while ...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its reopening, the Musée de l'Homme is offering a festive weekend on October 4 and 5, ...