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 ...

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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 ...

"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" ...

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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 ...

In what’s poised to be one of the most gut-wrenching documentaries of 2025, All the Empty Rooms follows CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they memorialise the bedrooms ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

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A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may have finally been solved, and it's all thanks to an ancient, exceptionally ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely ...

The first analysis of a well-preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record has revealed that the hefty Neanderthal nose wasn’t adapted to cold climates in the way many people thought it was.