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 ...
Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way ...
Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...
Parasites, ranging from tapeworms to microscopic protozoa like Giardia, pose significant health threats by infesting humans ...
Stress and attention-seeking can also be factors. Dogs that are bored, under-stimulated, or left alone for long periods may ...
Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.
In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the ...
Scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland started investigating otter waste after finding odd ...