From animal rivals to Jane Goodall's last thoughts, enjoy 2025's best science documentaries, says our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By following changes in human, animal and microbial DNA over time, researchers ...

Neanderthals vanished from the fossil record roughly 40,000 years ago, but traces of their DNA live on in most people alive today. Now a simple population equation, borrowed from the same mathematical ...

While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

When writer Jean M. Auel first published her now bestselling novel, “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” back in 1980, she made what seemed a questionable conceit at the center of her story: that our distant ...

"Sean Combs: The Reckoning," a four-part documentary about the Bad Boy Records founder's rise from music mogul to career fall, is making its debut this week.Produced by longtime rival Curtis "50 Cent" ...

We still have a few days until Black Friday officially gets underway, but Amazon has already started dropping some incredible streaming deals ahead of the big shopping day. Fans of PBS, Ken Burns, and ...

What does the U.S. government know about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs), aliens and an alleged global alien technology arms race? A brand-new documentary claims to have an answer: more than it ...