Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is leading scientists to believe that Neanderthals were more advanced than previously thought.

Learn how researchers recreated a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal dental procedure and uncovered evidence that ancient humans may have understood how cavities caused pain and how to treat them.

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

A battered molar from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia may preserve the earliest known evidence of invasive dental treatment — performed not by modern humans, but by a Neanderthal. A new study suggests that about 59,

Scientists say a tooth discovered in a Russian cave has provided the oldest evidence of "complex" dental care.