article_snippet.sent: The DNA is the oldest to ever be extracted from a Neanderthal and the researchers now hope to further analyse the genetic information from the skeleton.
article_snippet.sent: The DNA have a reputation as rather brutish creatures who chomped The DNA way through huge hunks of meat, but it seems Neanderthals may actually have been the first masterchefs.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers now hope that further analysis of the DNA might reveal new insights into Neanderthal evolution.
article_snippet.sent: It is nearly 100,000 years older than other previously sequenced Neanderthal DNA.
article_snippet.sent: Thus, the skeleton from Altamura represents the most ancient Neanderthal from which endogenous DNA has ever been extracted.'
article_snippet.sent: If Researchers from Oxford and Plymouth universities manage to sequence the DNA, Researchers from Oxford and Plymouth universities hope the DNA might reveal new details about the evolution of hominids in general and the early history of the Neanderthal.
article_snippet.sent: the DNA could also help shed new light on their relationship with modern humans analysis of other Neanderthal DNA has shown their interbred with our own species.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists have extracted DNA that has confirmed bones are Neanderthal .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists say DNA might reveal new details about the evolution of hominids .