Neanderthal skeleton. And the result surprised them: \"As we stood back, we noticed one interesting thing was that these are kind of a short, squat people,\" said Gary Sawyer of the American Natural History Museum in New York. \"These guys had no waist at all—they were compact, dwarfy-like beings.\" Meantime another team announced plans to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome from fossil fragments."/>

Anthropologists scrounged around museum halls to put together bones from various specimens to make the first Neanderthal skeleton. And the result surprised them: "As we stood back, we noticed one interesting thing was that these are kind of a short, squat people," said Gary Sawyer of the American Natural History Museum in New York. "These guys had no waist at all—they were compact, dwarfy-like beings." Meantime another team announced plans to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome from fossil fragments.