New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Long before humans acquired an appetite for meat, one of our earliest hominin ancestors — Australopithecus — stuck to a vegetarian diet. The ancient hominin, living in eastern and southern Africa ...

Much of what is now considered Greek ingredients have their roots far beyond its borders. The New World changed the Greek ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

This conclusion comes from the first direct evidence of the diet of these ancient people. Researchers analysed the diet of a woman who lived 12,800 years ago, using chemical clues found in the ...

JOHANNESBURG — Breaking new ground in our understanding of early human diet and evolution, scientists have discovered that our ancient relatives may not have been the avid meat-eaters previously ...

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating meat.

Experts say it could offer clues about the diets of sea predators in the Cretaceous period. “Somebody living on the seafloor preyed on the crinoids, ate whatever it could from them, then ...