Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

Whale sharks are filter feeders and have long been observed eating krill at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef. But when researchers analysed biopsy samples from whale sharks at the reef, they ...

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 ...

Whether dogs are carnivores is a hotly debated question. On the one hand, they belong to the Carnivora order and descend from meat-eating wolves. On the other hand, they can process carbohydrate ...

A new study examines when and why mammals eat, sleep and move about, using 2.3 million camera trap photos from the Neotropics, Afrotropics, and Indo-Malayan tropics. The researchers found consistent ...

Mitchell G. Nye-Wood works in a lab group that receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. That’s because making room for ...

It’s Sunday and your family are sitting at the dinner table. There’s a roast, gravy and then there’s your vegan brother Tom. Your mom’s upset that he will not try a bit of the gravy on his vegetables ...

All too often, books about the effects of animal agriculture extol how smart and deeply sentient so-called "farm animals" are, tell us how they suffer immensely during their horrific lives on factory ...