They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Juliane Koepcke fell from the sky into the Amazon Rainforest on Christmas Eve and survived 11 days alone with maggot-infested ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US ...

Missouri animal health experts warn of a potential reintroduction of a flesh-eating fly in the state within a year or two.

Missouri animal health experts warn of a potential reintroduction of a flesh-eating fly in the state within a year or two.

California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and ...

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare. By Dina Fine Maron Lemurs are charismatic primates known ...

Kansas health officials have alerted providers about the potential for human cases of New World screwworm. New World screwworm maggots burrow into and feed on the living flesh of animals and humans.

A rare human case of a deadly parasite infestation has become the latest unsettling pathogen to make headlines in the United States. A New World Screwworm case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease ...

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...