We’re living through a golden age of archaeological discovery about our distant cousins, the Neanderthals. We’ve recently learned they were much more intelligent than we used to give them credit for, ...
Insects may be full of protein, but they weren’t on the menu for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe or Central Asia. Even today, people descended from these ancient populations lack the ability to ...
The maggots of this parasitic fly feed on live flesh, preferring livestock but also infecting humans, and can be fatal. And now the presence of the New World screwworm has been confirmed in the United ...