BARCELONA, SPAIN—IFL Science reports that analysis of dental calculus samples taken from 18 Neanderthals, 745 modern humans, and 96 great apes suggests that Neanderthals consumed insects about as ...

In recent years, human population growth, coupled with the climate crisis, environmental pressures, and current production and consumption patterns, has driven the search for alternative food sources.

Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography.

Eating insects is completely normal in large parts of the world, yet in Europe and North America the idea still makes most ...