50,000-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Reveals Neanderthals Had a Much Richer Diet Than Science Ever Believed

For much of the 20th century, Neanderthals were cast as primitive hunters—robust, spear-wielding hominins whose survival hinged on the relentless pursuit of mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. Their diets, scholars believed, were almost exclusively mea... [5264 chars]