My friend, Susan in Santa Monica, posted a photo of herself on social media in a state of blissful repose, a white rat perched atop her chest. I recoiled at the sight of it. I phoned her and asked, ...

As autumn gives way to the winter, you may ask yourself, where do animals go once the cold has set in? It’s a simple enough ...

What do elk eat? Well, for starters, they eat a lot. Big animals need lots of fuel, and elk are massive creatures. Mature bulls often weigh more than 700 pounds, and cows go between 500 and 600. On ...

Ecologists have long sought clarity on the dietary habits of different animal species. For scientists, it wasn't obvious how herbivores in Yellowstone National Park, who subsist on grasses, ...

Snapping turtles are opportunistic omnivores that will eat almost anything in the pond. While they prefer meat, including worms, snails, fish, birds, small mammals, other turtles, and frogs, 30 ...

Tabbed pages make fact-finding easy in an assortment of reference titles from Scholastic's First Discovery Look-It-Up Board Book series. What Do Animals Eat categorizes ""herbivores,"" ""carnivores"" ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In a few days, many Americans will cook a very specific food, one they likely haven't cooked all year until now. It's a tradition that has us wondering: Why do we eat turkey on ...

Here's when experts say it's okay to eat critter-damaged produce from your garden, and when it's best avoided. Every year I really look forward to harvesting vegetables from my garden. But without ...

Brown University ecologists teamed with National Park Service scientists in Yellowstone to answer a vexing question about how different wildlife species find enough to eat PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown ...