If something exists, there’s probably someone out there who’s scared of it. Ever heard of trypophobia? This is when someone ...

Early Humans May Have Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago, Nearly Doubling the Age of the Oldest Known Evidence for the Feat ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

Recent findings from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology help reconstruct the genetic relationships of late Neanderthals in Northwestern Europe before they went extinct around 40,000 ...

For years, popular history portrayed Neanderthals as one-dimensional survivalists, focused only on immediate needs and living close to the surface. That view changed after a discovery in a French cave ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molar shows evidence of surgery to treat a deep cavity A stone tool was used to remove decay and relieve pain The 59,000-year-old tooth was found at Chagyrskaya Cave This is more evidence of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth found in a Siberian cave shows signs of deliberate drilling to treat a deep cavity, pushing back the earliest evidence of dentistry by about 45,000 years. The lower ...