Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, the suspiciously close sister of the King of France (Jean-Hugues Anglade), the daughter of Catherine de Medici (an iron-willed Virna Lisi), and the unwilling wife of Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil).

NEWYORKER: Queen Margot

Although researchers could find no link between the crash in cave bear populations and other factors, the event did "coincide with the start of human expansion, " commented co-author Dr Aurora Grandal-D'Anglade of the University of Coruna, Spain.

BBC: Early human 'squatters' drove cave bears to extinction