Over the past nine years, researchers have been excavating the remains of a Neanderthal from an archaeological site called Grotte Mandrin in southern France. They nicknamed him “Thorin” after a dwarf ...

A recently published scientific paper has confirmed the close genetic links between a Neanderthal population in the Rhone ...

Following from these results, the European TV Culture Channel, ARTE, has produced a documentary on Thorin and its discovery. Based in Strasbourg, ARTE has a monthly viewing of around 6.6 million. The ...

Analyzing DNA extracted from skeletons and teeth dating… Thorin, the World's Loneliest Neanderthal, Belonged to a Lineage Isolated for Over 50,000 Years A fossilized Neanderthal, discovered in a cave ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Forensic DNA analysis is one of law enforcement’s strongest tools in identifying unknown crime suspects but it has its limitations. University of Oregon researchers found ...

A woman in northern China discovered she was not her parents’ biological daughter after a DNA test was prompted by her colleagues’ joke that she “did not look local”. As a result ...

Richard Allen is accused of killing two teenage girls on a hiking trail. No DNA was found at the site of the Delphi, Indiana, double murders to tie the suspect, Richard Allen, or anyone else to ...

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe. Spanish researchers announced their ...