A discovery in France's Bruniquel Cave reveals Neanderthals built complex stone rings 176,000 years ago. This challenges old ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 300,000 years has revealed a lost chapter in human history.

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa ...

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

CNN — If you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. The digits of the Stone Age people, who went extinct about 40,000 years ago, were much chunkier than ours.

The world’s first dentist was a Neanderthal, according to a recent study. 59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...

Neanderthals were highly creative and resourceful. Living throughout Europe and Asia between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago, they made art, intentionally started fires, took care of their sick and ...

One of the individuals with a crushed skull and other skeletal parts of an adult Neanderthal was taken from a shallow scoop grave covered with stones. This was the research team’s first meeting with ...

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 ...