The crew headed offshore searching for fresh dinner, but things changed fast once one of the ocean’s fastest predators slammed the bait. Built like a missile with razor-sharp teeth capable of slicing ...

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar contains evidence of a cavity removal procedure, offering fresh insight into these early ...

Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...

A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...

When thinking of incredible animals, the gorilla and wolf may be two that come to mind. After all, the world’s largest ...

The cookiecutter shark is one of the strangest predators in the ocean, using glowing camouflage, suction-powered lips, and razor-sharp teeth to carve chunks of flesh from living animals . Unlike most ...

Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...

The 60,000-year-old tooth, viewed from different angles. (Zubova et al., PLOS One, 2026, CC-BY 4.0) A 60,000-year-old ...

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

59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...