Research suggests Neanderthals likely had a wide range of skin and hair pigmentation rather than one fixed appearance. Some ...

When I was young, all Neanderthal depictions were of these very light skinned cave dwelling brutes, but did they really have such white skin, or did they also have a darker complexion? When we look at ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...

Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man in the human evolution exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum in January 2024. - Mike Kemp/In Pictures/In Pictures via Getty Images The 2010 discovery that ...

A new study of 250,000-year-old fossil teeth from France suggests climate shifts repeatedly isolated and reconnected ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone? While there's plenty of evidence ...

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

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 ...