Big, fierce animals — lions and tigers and bears, for example — are relatively scarce in nature. That's normal, because if you have too many, they'll eat themselves out of prey. But top predators are ...

On the outside, giant pandas look like herbivores. They spend nearly all of their waking hours eating bamboo. But on the inside, they’re built like carnivores. About half of the calories they eat come ...

Discover 10 omnivorous animals that eat both plants and meat. Learn how their flexible diets help them survive and adapt in ...

More than half the diet of some carnivores is human food waste, a new study has found. US researchers looked at meat-eating animals in the Great Lakes region and found the percentage of human food in ...

Animals are living things. This means that they need to get nutrition so that they can stay alive. While plants get their nutrition through their roots from the soil they are planted in, animals need ...

Source: W. W. Norton & Company, with permission. Award-winning author Dan Flores never ceases to amaze me with the seamless ways in which his eloquent writing blends facts and stories in a most ...