Neanderthals: Facts, news, features and articles about our extinct human relatives

The hidden animals were revealed on cave walls in Spain with 'Magic Eye'-style techniques.

The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago.

The volcano beneath Italy erupted 40,000 years ago and had catastrophic impact on Earth's climate — around the same time that the Neanderthals began their slow march to extinction.

Neanderthals likely made Europe's oldest engravings in a French cave as long as 75,000 years ago, a study suggests.

A new study finds that the key genetic risk factors for Dupuytren's disease, a crippling hand disorder, are derived from Neanderthals.

A new genetic analysis found that the size of Neanderthal noses was passed down to modern humans.

New evidence that bows and arrows were used by early modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago has strengthened the idea that such projectile technology might have given early modern humans an edge over Neanderthals.

The tooth's owner was primarily a meat eater.

A new genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal remains found in a Siberian cave reveals that these humans traveled in small, family-oriented groups.