Cato the Elder promoted cabbage. Galen disapproved of olives. Hippocrates thought infants should be given wine.

A 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit discovery in Denmark offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric Cretaceous food chain.

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

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

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 ...

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

Revolutionary findings challenge what we know about blood types and nutrition, revealing why the same diet affects people ...

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 ...