A team of German scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine rejects the recent Egyptian conclusion that Tutankhamun died of malaria after a fall. Instead, they think the boy king suffered from the genetic blood disorder known as sickle cell disease, which could account for the lesions on his foot bones. Tomb raiding […]

“Humans are very efficient biters,” concluded Stephen Wroe, a biomechanist and paleontologist at the University of New South Wales. Wroe and his colleagues used computer models of actual skulls to compare modern human jaw muscles with those of chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and the human ancestors Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus boisei, aka “the nutcracker man.” “For […]