Neanderthals Looked Way Different Than You Think

It has been almost twenty years since it was reported that some Neanderthals had red hair. You might have heard this was over-turned, but nothing is further from the truth. Over the past twenty years new genetic discoveries have quietly begun to update the image of the Neanderthal. The southern Neanderthal populations, living from the Mediterranean basin through Iberia, carried genetic signals that point toward lighter pigmentation, including hair and eye colors far more varied than once thought.