In cloned populations of a newly described single-celled protist, a few cells undergo a voracious transformation. They metamorphose into much larger “supergiants” that shift their shape, alter their ...

Cannibalism is a taboo topic for humans. Many are therefore puzzled when they hear that animals eat their own kind. Yet in ...

Boosted by climate change and human activity, these praying mantises have settled in – and are proving to be quite ...

Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...

Consuming humans is one of the most widespread taboo on Earth. A new study modeling humans as a food source may help explain ...

Most spiders are solitary, aggressive, and quick to cannibalize their own kind. One species from Madagascar breaks every rule ...

A Taylor County couple was sentenced to jail Wednesday in Taylor County Magistrate Court after pleading guilty in a Grafton ...

If you were a starving snake in a barren landscape, your most nutritious available lunch may just be another snake. While cannibalism is an absolute taboo to us humans, it’s remarkably widespread in ...

Scientific analysis of "cannibal" killer whales might seem shocking at first glance, but it might also indicate that our understanding of this species is falling behind the pace of evolution. As ...

There are a few notable things about blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus): their bright blue claws (with nail varnish-like red tips on mature females), their value to fisheries in the USA’s Chesapeake Bay ...

When severed, partially devoured orca fins started washing ashore on a remote Russian beach, most people’s first reaction was probably something between confusion and genuine horror. These are apex ...

Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the North Pacific, and such cannibalism may explain why some orcas travel in large family groups. Two distinct subspecies of orcas, also called ...