A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Brazil has the “world’s richest genetic diversity”, and some of its residents may reap the longevity benefits.

Not only do women get more migraines than men, but a new study shows they also experience them for a longer duration.

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

A large international study reveals that mammals tend to live longer when reproduction is suppressed. On average, lifespan ...

W hat female mosquitoes choose to feed on has a bearing on human health, since they transmit pathogens from one host to ...

And now a new study finds that when humans encroach on wild places, these insects may develop a special taste for human blood ...

Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of ...

Scientists learned a lot about one of the last generations of woolly rhinocheros—from a chunk of meat swallowed by a wolf pup ...

Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...