New discoveries from Denisova Cave include ancient DNA extracted from sediments and sophisticated jewelry dated to around 45,000 years ago. The finds show that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

A human molar discovered in a cave in Laos provides the first physical evidence that Denisovans lived in Southeast Asia. Dated to between 164,000 and 131,000 years ago, protein analysis links the ...

Last month, seemingly out of nowhere, Julia Loktev’s documentary “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow” became a frontrunner in the Oscar race for best documentary feature. The film, ...

Music documentaries have long offered more than just behind-the-scenes access. At their best, they serve as time capsules, preserving pivotal moments in culture while peeling back the layers of the ...

A group of 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may shed new light on when our species branched off from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans. A team of anthropologists recently ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ancestors of Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans. “We can say that the ...

Researchers theorize that the last common ancestor of modern humans and two of our extinct human cousins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—existed about 765,000 to 550,000 years ago. Where these ancestors ...

Get ready for a final look inside the Upside Down. A new documentary on the making of "Stranger Things" Season 5 is coming to Netflix, the streaming service announced on Jan. 5. "One Last Adventure: ...

CNN’s new documentary focused on longtime Hollywood funny man Chevy Chase, has arrived with renewed attention on the comedian’s legacy and the long-running controversies that have followed him for ...

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

The year 2025 did not disappoint in the documentaries category, and that means we have to recap the biggest titles that educated and enlightened us the most. Some made us dance, some made us cry, and ...