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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...