Professor Clive Finlayson has recently returned from Tenerife, where he was a contributor at the 'Ignite the Cosmos' annual forum. The forum this year saw him discuss the theme of 'Extinctions in Life ...

Professor Clive Finlayson represented Gibraltar at the 2025 'Ignite the Cosmos' Forum in Tenerife, discussing extinctions in ...

Cádiz, Spain - January 31, 2025 Five years after Brexit, the question of Gibraltar is still up in the air, it is the last hurdle of the process, and there are even those who have given it a name ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports finds that incompatibility between the blood groups of Neanderthals and modern humans may have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

As our plane approaches Gibraltar, the British Airways pilot announces that there is a southwesterly breeze, which is in fact a warning. It means very strong cross winds that can then lead to the ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread worldwide. Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals.

The idea that Neanderthals and some ancestral populations of Homo sapiens interbred has gained traction over the past two decades. However, this theory is primarily supported by statistical approaches ...

When Neanderthals were first discovered in the first half of the 19th century (first a baby skull was discovered in a Belgian cave in 1829, and then more remains were discovered in Gibraltar in ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

A group of researchers did just that, by analyzing genetic information from three groups of Early Man — most recently Neanderthal and Homo sapiens (earlier work also included Denisovans, an extinct ...

sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand the genetics that coded for their blood groups. They were curious to see whether H. sapiens and ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals ...