Humans often imagine extraterrestrial life as biological creatures similar to animals or people. However, some scientists ...

Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...

Consuming humans is one of the most widespread taboo on Earth. A new study modeling humans as a food source may help explain ...

With its intelligence and almost human sense of humour, the kea is a firm favourite in New Zealand, but its appetite and ...

Tick season is booming, and with it come fears over a potentially deadly tick-borne allergy to meat. Discovered just under 20 ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

Brown, cannibalism felt like the perfect expression of female rage — a visceral form of protest against the pressure women ...

The Apple TV series wraps noir inside science fiction. With subtlety and charm, Farrell plays an earnest alien just doing his ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning for a flesh-eating bacteria. The bacteria has been found in Mississippi as well as Florida. Health officials are concerned about ...