Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on the diet of individuals at the Sima de ...

For most animals, making vitamin C is as ordinary as breathing. Somewhere deep in the liver, a small enzyme quietly finishes ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

McDonald's has Ronald McDonald, and KFC has Colonel Sanders, but Chick-fil-A's mascot has not only changed designs repeatedly ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

People have long said that “bread is life.” Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and water known as sourdough starters to explore what shapes life at the ...

Eye drop nanoparticles that shrink over time overcome the eye's natural defenses, delivering protein drugs to the retina and ...

Climate-driven health risks could cost the global economy $1.5 trillion in lost productivity by 2050, according to WEF.

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...