Giant loops of DNA carried by bacteria in our mouth may have a beneficial impact on our oral health and our immune systems, potentially reducing the risk of certain cancers. Named 'Inocles', the ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Learn more about the giant nameless vulture that likely fed on dead megafauna.