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The theory goes (and archaeological evidence corroborates) that early hunter-gatherers, while they may not have lived as long, still had some major health advantages on most of us modern humans.

It’s hard to imagine a creature more menacing than a great white shark swimming in the surf, but a giant crocodile comes close.

Ray Kurzweil popularised the Teminator-like moment he called the ‘singularity’, when artificial intelligence overtakes human thinking. But now the man who hopes to be immortal is involved in the very same quest – on behalf of the tech behemoth.

A South Carolina scofflaw movie renter spent a night in jail this week after police busted her for failing to return a Jennifer Lopez movie she rented nine years ago.

It appears that a broken headlight prompted the stop. What prompted more than a dozen wolves to race across the highway in the middle of the night is anyone’s guess.

Harley burial: A custom Plexiglas casket was built for Billy Standley and his1967 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide cruiser. The Harley burial was his idea, and his sons helped build the casket.

Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses.

A woman wants answers after discovering the wrong body in a casket that should have contained her mother, who died unexpectedly while on vacation in St. Maarten.

Cancer-killing “sticky balls” can destroy tumour cells in the blood and may prevent cancers spreading, early research suggests.

Chinese scientists have created the world’s first glow-in-the-dark pigs that emit a fluorescent green light.