A Croatian scientist working in Germany is helping uncover how Neanderthals from a cave in northern Croatia contributed to ...

A female Neanderthal who lived in what is now Croatia 52,000 years ago is revealing that our "caveman" relatives may have passed on genes that play roles in cholesterol levels, eating disorders, ...

A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date. Among the many new findings, the researchers learned that Neanderthals first mated ...

It turns out humans and Neanderthals did not meet at Vindija Cave, modern day Croatia, which was previously one of the top candidates for the site of interaction between the two species. The history ...

When paleontologists unearthed the bones of a Neanderthal woman in Vindija Cave, Croatia, they uncovered more than ancient history—they delivered the second fully and accurately sequenced Neanderthal ...

Two Neantertal fossils excavated from Vindija Cave in Croatia in 1998, believed to be the last surviving Neandertals, may be 3,000-4,000 years older than originally thought. Two Neantertal fossils ...

Researchers report ages of Neanderthal remains using an improved dating technique. Neanderthal remains from Vindija Cave in northern Croatia have been previously dated at approximately 32,000 years ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—Archaeologists Thibaut Devièse and Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford obtained new radiocarbon dates for Neanderthal bone fragments unearthed in Croatia’s Vindija Cave, ...

A re-creation of a Neanderthal on display at the National Museum of Prehistory in France shows what this prehistoric human cousin may have looked like. PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images A cave in ...