Critters consuming species that harbor deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way.

Analysis - Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Unlike most predators, hyenas are ruled by females and thrive through hierarchy and cooperation. Their physiology allows them to process bones for calcium, while their intelligence rivals that of ...

To explain Professor Joash Amupitan’s recent appointment as the Chairman of the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission ...