The animal kingdom is packed with surprising eating behaviors that challenge human understanding of what’s normal or acceptable. In nature, survival is everything—meaning even the most shocking animal ...

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 ...

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

MIAMI-- What if there was a way to eat meat without farming and killing billions of animals per year, contributing to the climate crisis and risking high cholesterol levels? "Cultivated meat is real ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Australian who fondly remembers offal-based meals, like sheep's brain is celebrity chef, author, businesswoman and health ...

It’s odd, given American meat eaters’ sporadic bursts of conscience, that as a nation we are so O.K. with infanticide. Veal cutlets, suckling pigs, spring lambs, game hens — with or without the ...

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 ...