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 ...

It is a wonder-filled, sometimes puzzling, and even shocking world out there in the animal kingdom. One of those kickoff ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...