A study from U.S. and Chinese researchers suggests Neanderthals and early modern humans probably had similar cognitive ...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Somewhere around 47,000 years ago, in mountain valleys and along migration corridors stretching from Iran to central Europe, ...

Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...