Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, and researchers are continuing to find clues about why.Mike Kemp/Getty Images ...

Two weeks’ walk can be an eternity in prehistory. In southern France’s Rhône Valley, a Neanderthal by the name of “Thorin” lived and died without his people ever meeting or exchanging a single gene ...

Could the last chapters of Neanderthal history be far more complicated than anyone thought? A newly sequenced genome from a 42,000-year-old Neanderthal, nicknamed “Thorin,” is rewriting what ...