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

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 ...

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 ...

For years, Neanderthals have been seen as simple hunters, relying on brute force to survive. But discoveries in Gibraltar are rewriting that narrative, according to illvet. Far from being ...

New DNA evidence has revealed that the prehistoric Gibraltar skull is more closely related to the Neanderthals in the French Mediterranean than those nearby in To contact the newsdesk out of ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

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 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.

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 ...