Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

Dogs and cats who prey on their pet parents after death are often trapped in their homes for days or weeks before their ...

Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but their appetite and effect on their environment are ...

In recent months, unusual wildlife behaviours have been trending across social platforms, especially topics that challenge what we normally expect from the natural world. One such behaviour that ...

Nature's harsh reality unfolds as animals sometimes consume their young, a survival instinct driven by scarcity, stress, or ...

The idea of an animal eating one of its own kind just feels wrong. But in the animal kingdom, things don’t always follow our human rules or feelings. For some creatures, eating their own kind is a ...

This post was co-authored with Jared Piazza, Ph.D. How can people both recognize that there are issues with meat production yet fall short in taking the necessary steps to address the problem? A ...

Consuming live animals, though disgusting to some, is a tradition for others. Eating live animals is a practice that spans various cultures and it may seem unusual or even cruel to many, but in some ...

One of the earliest known fossil animals, Dickinsonia lived on the sea floor over a half billion years ago. Based on traces of a biochemical marker, coprostanol, UC Davis paleobiologists propose that ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world’s largest animal advocacy organization, was grilled on Twitter for claiming that people eat animals because of their “supremacy.” ...

Periodical cicadas are picky eaters, but many other creatures gladly gobble them up. Here's what to know about the "movable feast" arriving this month. Over a trillion of the loud, buzzing insects ...