The Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, begins on January 29. Also called Spring Festival, this annual celebration is ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

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A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Bill Ervolino has spent January trying to figure out why people are so overweight in the first place. And he believes he has cracked the code.

A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.