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, ...

When dead animals are left lying around in nature, who takes advantage of the free feed—carnivores or herbivores? The answer may surprise you. In Australia, people tend to think carnivores—such as ...

There’s a reason we eat cows, pigs and chickens and not wolves, tigers or lions. As a rule of thumb, animals that eat plants are tastier than those that eat meat. There are some exceptions to this ...

For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet we still don't know when these ancestors of humans started eating meat.