A high-coverage genome extracted from Belgium’s Goyet Cave, combined with genomic data from a late Neanderthal individual ...

Eating insects is completely normal in large parts of the world, yet in Europe and North America the idea still makes most ...

Kayleigh breaks down common misconceptions about Neanderthals, from the old idea that they were hunched, unintelligent cave brutes to claims that they could not speak, make art, build shelters, care ...

Some of the Neanderthal remains that were analyzed in the new study © P. Semal / Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences under CC-BY 4.0 Scientists have long ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...