Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks ...

This video follows a growing animal food challenge where each meal is made for a bigger or more dangerous creature. The cooking starts with small animals like a rat, squirrel, parrot, monkeys, a dog, ...

It turns out, Neanderthals likely had something akin to “family recipes.” Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel have revealed that each Neanderthal group may have possessed ...