Now a new study suggests that, for some of us, our muscles may get a boost from Neanderthal genetics.

Neanderthals were generally more strongly built than most people living today. Their bones show signs of large muscles, and ...

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Stratified rock layers inside a cave in southern Turkiye have produced the strongest direct evidence to date that ...

If you're lucky enough to be naturally muscular, scientists say it might be because you are part Neanderthal.

The remains comprise in part the stapes — a bone of the middle ear found in humans and other mammals — of a Neanderthal child estimated to be no more than 2 years old at death. The study centred on ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Finds from caves in Turkey and Israel hint that different types of humans exchanged ideas even as they remained biologically distinct. | Credit: Naoki Morimoto. Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's ...

Neandertal babies were born similar in size to modern human newborns. Their bones, however, matured much more rapidly in the months following birth. This accelerated skeletal development suggests a ...

A Neanderthal baby who died roughly 55,000 years ago appears to have been only about six months old. Yet the infant’s limbs ...

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