Dreading your next trip to the dentist? It won't likely be as rough a visit as it was for a toothache-suffering Neanderthal some 59,000 years ago. A tooth from that unfortunate soul has survived to ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen. By Franz Lidz Franz Lidz has had two root canals and was ...

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early humans' intelligence. Reading time 3 minutes No one enjoys getting a cavity ...

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No one likes having their teeth drilled at the dentist. But hey, it could be worse. You could be a Neanderthal performing surgery on your own rotting molar with nothing but a shard of rock. That’s the ...

An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might have performed to fix a cavity 59,000 years ago. Researchers uncovered the lower molar of an ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern humans. To test their theory that Neanderthals performed dentistry on this ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” living together 100,000 years ago in what is now Poland. The findings reveal ...

During their first few years of life, Neanderthal children grew faster than Homo sapiens, likely to improve their chances of survival in the harsh environments the species inhabited. That’s the ...