But humans are catching up, according to new figures released Tuesday. With a population of 23.6 million sheep and 5.3 ...

Compared with her own experiences with nicks and cuts, the baboons’ ability to heal seemed like a superpower.

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

They found that human wounds took more than twice as long to heal as wounds of any of the other mammals. Our slow healing may be a result of an evolutionary trade-off we made long ago, when we ...