By sequencing the genomes of dozens of people who lived between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, researchers found that Neanderthals had a rare blood group that could have been fatal to their newborns.

The blood groups of three Neanderthals one Denisovan have been determined by a team including a palaeoanthropologist, population geneticists, and haematologists. Their research provides new data ...

An analysis of the blood types of one Denisovan and three Neanderthal individuals has uncovered new clues to the evolutionary history, health, and vulnerabilities of their populations. Silvana ...

“Blood group systems were not known in Neanderthals and Denisovans,” Condemi says. Blood analysis is a unique tool, albeit one that needs a larger dataset of ancient genes to reach its full ...

The lack of variety in blood type within Neanderthals may have led them to their demise. While H. sapiens had wider diversity in blood types, which may have given them the immune system arsenal ...

Scanning a printout of her ancestry results from a DNA testing company, Peggy Spatz announced that 2.7 percent of her genetic blueprint was handed down from her Neanderthal relatives some 50,000 ...

Discovering two Neanderthals with type O blood could suggest that this type was most prevalent, says John Hawks, a biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Illustration of a white blood cell engulfing a bacterium. Our Neanderthal DNA may reduce our body's ability to fight infections in this way. Hank Grebe/Getty ...

“But for Neanderthals living in cold areas of Europe, coming into contact with dangerous animals all the time as they were hunting them, being able to quickly clot blood when you got a cut could ...

Politicians will accuse each other of having too much Neanderthal blood. Websites will crop up to provide a safe support group for the Neanderthal-intensive, and other websites will crop up to ...

By sequencing the genomes of dozens of people who lived between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, researchers found that Neanderthals had a rare blood group that could have been fatal to their newborns.