When Wisconsin University researchers examined a Stone-Age butchery site in Tanzania, they found that the site's animal remains indicated that those animals had been specifically targeted and killed by human hunters. Hunting is apparently far older than we realized.
Read MoreNeanderthals existed from roughly 400,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago. Though they lived in the Stone Age, they didn't have rocks for brains. Here's what life was like for our Stone Age relatives.
Read MoreGum is generally a one and done piece of entertainment. So it's surprising that a 5,700 year-old form of 'chewing gum' remembers its owner well enough that scientists were able to recreate her entire genome, and also see what she had just eaten. You deserve an explanation.
Read MoreThere were always two kinds of people: Those who loved The Dave Matthews Band and those who loved to make fun of those who loved them. After the 2000s, both types went quiet. The Dave Matthews Band's popularity has waned in what could be argued as a "natural course," but they didn't disappear.
Read MoreThe band then returned to England for two performances at the V Festival, which received awful reviews, with NME (per Dedece Blog) reporting, "where songs used to spiral upwards and outwards, they now simply fizzle tamely." In April 1999, it was announced that The Verve had split up.
Read MoreAs MTV reported, Manson and the other members felt they'd had enough. Manson unequivocally said the band was on a hiatus, though many thought they had broken up. Manson said recording and touring for Bleed Like Me had been difficult for all band members. They just needed time away from each other.
Read MorePower pop hit "Closing Time" by American rock band Semisonic checks all the boxes for a novelty hit: an infectious melody, an easy-to-memorize chorus and a meditative double-meaning, much deeper than you might imagine.
Read MoreSomeone once told Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins that their '90s emblem "Semi-Charmed Life" sounds like "summer and everything is going to be wonderful." But the truth of the song is a little less charming.
Read MoreNo Doubt rocketed into mainstream fame with their third album, 1995's Tragic Kingdom, and the song "Don't Speak." It's no surprise that the quintessential nineties rock band who found success because of a breakup will be subject to constant rumors of splitting up.
Read MoreBack in the 90s, the Gin Blossoms were everywhere. They had a song in the movie Empire Records, Grammy nominations, and were even onscreen during the end of Wayne's World 2. But after their heyday, it seemed the band virtually disappeared. Or did they?
Read MoreRadiohead hasn't released a new album since 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool, so of course fans eagerly await the next one. And they might be waiting a while.
Read MoreThe Counting Crows, one of the 90's bands you used to love, released a new song in 2019, but it's been half a decade since the band came out with a full album. Here's why.
Read MoreAs any Gen X'er who still wears acid wash jeans and calls people "dude" can attest, Winger was, for a while there, a band. According to some, it was none other than Beavis and Butthead who brought Winger down.
Read MoreIf you had a Sam Goodie gift card and a lot of feelings about your parents' divorce in the late 1990s, there's a good chance that you owned at least one Everclear album. They had everything that a band could ask for at the time.
Read MoreElla Fitzgerald is undoubtedly one of the greatest singers ever. And, like many extraordinary talents, her rise to fame seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Fitzgerald worked hard to find success and a last-second decision helped propel her to stardom.
Read MoreTina Turner was just 18 years old when she gave birth to her first son, Craig, whose father performed with Tina's future husband, Ike Turner. The Turners had a famously rocky marriage & Tina relayed that Craig had been particularly affected by witnessing Ike abuse her.
Read MoreBillionaire Patricia Kluge took her 1990 divorce to the bank, but like other billionaires who lost their entire fortunes, it wouldn't last. The $1 billion she got in the breakup was the largest divorce settlement ever at the time. This is the way billionaire Patricia Kluge lost everything.
Read MoreLouis Armstrong was more than just a jazz pioneer. The incredibly talented musician also had a peculiar habit, one that made his life what's been described as "one of the most well documented private lives of any American artist."
Read More"Clap on, clap off, The Clapper!" Long before Siri was sending texts with your voice, Alexa started putting Yacht Rock Radio on for you or a quick "Hey Google" got you the local forecast, The Clapper was turning America on. So what's the story behind this piece of of 80s tech lore?
Read MoreThe Fab Four were a global sensation, with millions of people in love with their music. Young people everywhere knew the lyrics to Beatles songs by heart. But a few choice words from members of the famous band didn't strike the right chord with some people.
Read MoreMar-a-Lago is President Donald Trump's primary residence, a resort club for the extremely wealthy, and an estate with more history than you might expect.
Read MoreThe creature is part of the Oviraptoridae family that roamed the Asian and American continents over 60 million years ago. With the discovery of Anzu, scientists have been able to fill in evolutionary gaps within the Oviraptorid evolutionary tree. In the world of paleontology, this is a big deal.
Read MoreStranger Things is, in many ways, a love letter to the 1980s, but while it's known for its attention to detail, the show gets things both right and wrong.
Read MoreWhile a car is coveted, the prize isn't always what it seems. This is true of The Price Is Right. Winning such a big price is thrilling; recipients jump up and down, scream, and then race down to jump behind the wheel of their new ride. But once the lights dim, that dream can become less exciting.
Read MoreSome 23 labels in total rejected her self-titled album. "No one was willing to take a chance on a female rocker, especially one with a look and sound as androgynous as Jett's." Undaunted, Jett and Laguna formed their own independent label, Blackheart Records, and released the album themselves.
Read MoreTrent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails didn't always deal well with that fame, and ultimately, it was the fame that led both to a situation that could've killed Reznor, and to none other than David Bowie saving Reznor's life.
Read MoreLong before the word "branding" was used to describe the click-boosting tactics of Instacelebs, it was used by cowherds to keep track of field-roaming cattle (a funny comparison, to be sure). And we mean "long before," as in pre-written language scrawled on cave walls thousands of years ago.
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