Rock discovered by 6-year-old turns out to be 50,000-year-old Neanderthal axe

A close-up photo of the 50,000-year-old hand axe. — Worthing Museum and Art Gallery/file

A then six-year-old boy found a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England and didn’t tell anyone for the next three years, having lost track of it. The rock has now been identified as a...