Owls have become symbols of wisdom and magic, but biologically they are highly specialized ambush predators. The segment ...

Polar bears are frequently portrayed as vulnerable symbols of climate change, but that does nothing to diminish their status ...

The Neolithic was an evolutionary and social turning point for humans—and these changes sometimes took a dark turn.

Neanderthal teeth study overturns 17-year-old cannibal case: child remains from Les Rois Cave in France, once cited as proof ...

Cannibalism was sometimes on the Neolithic menu, as numerous archaeological discoveries have revealed. But while ancient ...

Ancient human fossils unearthed at three different caves in Spain reveal that cannibalism resurfaced among early Europeans in ...

Analysis of nearly 1,000 bones found in three caves in Granada shows that cannibalism was a recurring Neolithic practice, ...

For decades, prehistoric cannibalism has tended to be interpreted as a single type of behavior,” Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, a ...

The findings add weight to suspicions about cannibalism in the caves that had circulated for decades. Evidence of butchery at ...

Skulls had been turned into cups, some bones had been boiled, but the reason these stone age people were eating other humans ...

You may be familiar with some of humanity’s early relatives, like Homo erectus or Neanderthals. One you might not be familiar with, but whose name is a little too on-the-nose, is Homo antecessor, one ...

New mathematical research suggests that cannibalism can offer short-term survival benefits under very limited conditions, yet it inevitably becomes unsustainable as infectious diseases spread through ...