Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean. By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Florida's C.A. Pound Human Identification ...

A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how early humans survived. Far from being mere hunters, our ancestors may have thrived by scavenging the remains of dead animals. This overlooked ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of scavenging animal species living nearby. While smaller scavenging animals such ...

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But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to evolution—and a new study offers some novel insights into how nuanced this actually ...

Animals that eat the carcasses of other animals can seem kind of gross. However, a recent study shows that scavengers, such as vultures or hyenas, can actually be good for human health. That same ...