Neanderthal gourmets regularly feasted on roasted crab

Bronze Age Britons travelled long distances to attend communal feasts of grand proportions, sometimes with livestock in tow, shows new studies. A team of archaeologists from Cardiff University conduct

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Felipe Fernández-Armesto longs to dine offaly well

From mouth to manure, the journeys animals’ meals go on can be very different to human digestion

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c