Death by exhaustion, cannibalism, complete body fusion: across the animal kingdom, mating takes many strange forms.
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A species that is an “apex” predator in one environment won’t necessarily remain so in another.
Shipwrecks, plane crashes and lost desert expeditions in Australian history all feature stories of horror and disaster that rival the thrilling TV show Yellowjackets.
We could one day adapt to eating the flesh of our own kind - but not until our lives depend on it.
According to experts, ladybirds are no more dangerous than they were before.
A new study estimates the nutritional value of human flesh and challenges the belief that prehistoric humans engaged in cannibalism just to fill their stomachs.
Flakka was believed to be behind two cannibalistic attacks in Florida that left one man blind and a married couple dead. It wasn’t so. Here’s why we need facts, not myths, about dangerous drugs.
The dangerously alluring figure of the cannibal has long undermined the taboo status of cannibalistic practice.
Be thankful you aren’t a male redback spider.
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