We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...

Researchers unearthed a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar that shows signs of dental surgery, a discovery that pushes back ...

Newly studied footprints from two coastal sites in Portugal show that Neanderthals were moving across dunes and beaches there ...

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

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

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

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...

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