Everyone grows up knowing the difference between herbivore, carnivore, and to a lesser extent, omnivore animals. That's especially the case if you happen to have been into dinosaurs at an early age, ...

I, personally, could write about squirrels every week for a year. These are one of those common animals that are so much more than meets the eye. In response to my last squirrel column, I was asked ...

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 ...

If there’s anything that’s known for eating the same thing every day, it’s the giant panda. It only eats bamboo, making picky toddlers seem like gourmets in comparison. But despite its 24-hour bamboo ...

If diet is destiny, then modern humans should thank our ancestors for their ability to eat just about anything. Two new studies peek into the distant past to try to figure out just how big a role food ...

When I was in elementary school, I was taught that one of the ways to tell a reptile from a mammal was by looking at their teeth. Reptiles, like lizards and crocodiles, had a mouth full of nearly ...

I stood in front of a smoking grill at a campground in Florida with a pair of raw T-bone steaks. As I dropped them onto the grill, I had that eerie sense of being stared at. I turned around and saw a ...

Microsoft Research has its hands in a number of different projects and today one of them came to light that could help scientists better understand the natural environment. A Microsoft Research team ...

The best evidence is our teeth: we have biting/tearing/ripping incisors and canines (like carnivores) and chewing molars (like herbivores). Animals with such diverse teeth tend to be omnivores.

If diet is destiny, then modern humans should thank our ancestors for their ability to eat just about anything. Two new studies peek into the distant past to try to figure out just how big a role food ...