New study shows that black bear gut microbes change with diet, age, and environment. Bears eat corn but not much peanut bait.

When the digestive system kicks into overdrive, their metabolism also increases. To aid in digestion, they produce powerful stomach acid capable of dissolving bones, fur, feathers, and scales, leaving ...

Snakes don’t bite and chew like we do. They swallow their food whole, sometimes animals many times bigger than their heads and rely on a digestive system that’s radically different from ours. From ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...