Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists still don't fully understand why some animals eat their own offspring. If animals have an instinct to reproduce and ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

Sometimes, this means doing things that may shock us. One such behaviour is cannibalism. This means an animal eats another ...

Wolves are intelligent and resourceful terrestrial (land-living) predators. As is clear from this fascinating Instagram post, ...

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 ...

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 ...

My friend, Susan in Santa Monica, posted a photo of herself on social media in a state of blissful repose, a white rat perched atop her chest. I recoiled at the sight of it. I phoned her and asked, ...