Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

Set at 4,700 feet in the Western Ugandan Albertine Rift, Kibale Lodge is the newest addition to the Volcanoes Safaris brand.

St. James and LaDonna Davis spent 30 glorious years with a pet chimp they raised like a son. A horrific attack changed their ...

Scientists have found that chimpanzees are turning to bat feces for nutrients in concentrated areas of deforestation, which could have implications for human epidemics, reports Mongabay. In the ...

It’s never a good idea to get purposefully close to an alligator, tempt, or provoke it in any way. However, alligator attacks are fairly rare—and they eat people even less commonly. Only a small ...

Their remains are displayed in a Chicago museum. Now DNA sequencing of hair fragments found lodged in their canine teeth confirms the lions’ penchant for eating humans.

Research on Tsavo lion museum specimens from the 1890s, using DNA isolated from hairs in their teeth, reveals a diverse diet ...

Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee ...

Perhaps the best catalog that exists is from researchers in Mexico, who have systematically recorded dogs in their homes in specific situations, getting them to bark by, say, knocking on a door or ...

Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped ...

Authors: Amsini, F., Bennett, E., Beyers, R., Didier, K., Furuichi, T., Greer, D., Griffin, B., Hart, J., Hashimoto, C., Hernandez, A., Hicks, C., Idani, G., Kamenya ...