One reason might be that under a microscope a hair follicle taken from the leg would look just about the same as one from the head. Our human "fur" if you will — the hair under the arms ...

While observing wild baboons in Kenya, researcher Akiko Matsumoto-Oda noticed something striking. Whenever the animals got injured in fights with each other, their wounds healed quickly—much more ...

(CNN) - A nonprofit based in San Francisco is using human hair and animal fur to help clean up oil spills. A standard way to clean up oil on land is to use mats made from polypropylene, a non ...

Human hair therefore shows unexpected similarities to the claws of clawed frogs. The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and thus also of humans. However ...

and so human ancestors who lost this hair may have had an advantage. The reason the rest of our body lost its fur, however, has been up for debate for decades. One popular idea that has gone in ...

Recent findings lay bare the origins of human ... fur—from the short, black pelage of the howler monkey to the flowing copper coat of the orangutan—as do most other mammals. Yes, we humans ...

The idea of using human hair to mop up oil spills dates from the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989. Watching the unfolding disaster on television, Alabama hair stylist Phil McCory noticed how hard it was ...

Hair and fur, on the other hand, are nontoxic, biodegradable, renewable, and extremely absorbent. Human hair, for instance, can absorb approximately five times its weight in oil, according to ...

The authors say that these proteins must have arisen in an early tetrapod ancestor before diverging to become hair in mammals and toe pads in frogs.

would have been able to lose their fur and thereby reduce the numbers of parasites they were carrying without suffering from the cold at night or in colder climates. Human lice infections ...

We could soon be cleaning up land-based oil spills with human hair and dog fur. New research from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has found that fur and hair products, collected from dog ...

In a world where most mammals are covered in thick fur, humans are pretty unique, and not just by a little. From endless hair care tutorials to debates about waxing and shaving, we actually spend ...