Eating one's own offspring, or filial cannibalism, is widespread in the animal kingdom. This phenomenon has been recorded in ...

I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral ...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...

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Animals more likely to eat their young are those with faster reproductive cycles. “Species that have large broods might be ...

From queen-slaying ants to brawling kangaroos, these species reveal just how savage survival can be in the natural world ...

A new study found that Clubonia spiders use their own antifreeze made of specific proteins that they sequenced.

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Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...

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