C/2023 A3 has been dubbed a potential “comet of the century” because of its beautiful cometary tail that is visible to the ...

A once-in-a-lifetime event is about to happen this weekend, with a comet that's not been seen for 80,000 years set to be visible.

Although a lot of fuss was made about comet C/2023 E3 having an orbit of 55,000 years—a scientifically unremarkable fact that nevertheless earned it the nickname the “Neanderthal comet” and ...

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Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species. The remains ...

The Neanderthal was unearthed at a cave known as "Grotte Mandrin" in southern France's Rhône Valley. The 2015 find has been reported in scientific literature for the first time, in a study ...

A Neanderthal dubbed Thorin just took a DNA test, and it turns out he represents a lineage of the ancient humans that is genetically separated from other groups by at least 50,000 years.

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

A clue lies in how much harder it was to grow up as a Neanderthal kid, suggests a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports.

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

Neanderthals created certain types of tools, named Mousterian after a Neanderthal site in France. This type of tool was invented 160,000 years ago and largely disappeared by 40,000 years ago across ...