Animals do not choose fruit by chance. What they eat depends on smell, ripeness, texture, and what is available in the moment ...

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 ...

People all around the world feed animals, ranging from household companions for whom we control when, where, how, and what they eat to their free-ranging relatives, to garden birds and squirrels and ...

Scientists still don't fully understand why some animals eat their own offspring. If animals have an instinct to reproduce and ensure survival for their offspring, what forces could drive them to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...