A new study has found that Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Experts said they’ve discovered that a five-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago had parents from both species, per the U.K. Daily Mail .

The fossil – likely a female – was first unearthed 90 years ago in the Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in what is now northern Israel.

A Tel Aviv University team and the French Centre for Scientific Research ran a series of advanced tests on the remaining bones, including a CT scan of the skull.

“Genetic studies over the past decade have shown that these two groups exchanged genes,” lead author and professor Israel Hershkovitz said, per the D aily Mail .

“Even today, 40,000 years after the last Neanderthals disappeared, pa

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