Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans are among bird species that eat hatchlings for food or to prevent the ...

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Analysis of bones from Goyet cave in Belgium found cut marks indicating cannibalism, with victims including children and ...

Archaeological records show that prehistoric cannibalism dates back to nearly a million years ago but why did ancient man eat his own kind? Well, it wasn't so much because he had a taste for ...

From the Hannibal Lecter film series to Cormac McCarthy's dystopian novel The Road, depictions of cannibalism haunt the popular imagination. Thankfully, in today's world, the practice is extremely ...

Covering education fights, I've heard conservatives' complaints about lessons they think go too far. Many are fighting certain lessons on race and gender along with mask mandates. But two groups in ...

While still in their mother’s uterus, sand tiger shark embryos develop teeth–and an appetite. The largest of the babies in each of the sharks’ two uteruses attacks and eats its smaller siblings, ...

Recently, I encountered four minor news items, four unrelated vignettes, mostly trivial in and of themselves, yet important in their implications and ramifications. Cannibalism: The Smithsonian ...

The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.