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

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.

Today's humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago.

The finger came from a young girl, who was neither like us nor Neanderthal.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans — both relatives of modern humans — were roommates, literally, for thousands of years in a remote Siberian cave, two new studies find.

Genetic mutations from extinct human relatives called the Denisovans might have influenced modern human immune systems, researchers say.

Scientists have recreated the face of a Denisovan woman — an ancient human who went extinct tens of thousands of years ago — using a groundbreaking DNA analysis.

Modern humans and now-extinct human relatives may have mingled at the site.

During the last ice age, five mammoths — a baby, two juveniles and two adults — died at a "graveyard" in what is now the United Kingdom.

Humanity shaped the world at the expense of many species, which were driven to extinction through our activities. How would Earth be different if modern humans never existed?

Homo bodoensis is named after a 600,000-year-old skull found in Bodo D'ar, Ethiopia, in 1976.