Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists still don't fully understand why some animals eat their own offspring. If animals have an instinct to reproduce and ...

Animals don't kill and eat their young out of malice, but looking at how chimpanzees can go about this incredibly gruesome business, one might be tempted to think otherwise. It's not uncommon for male ...

The idea of an animal eating one of its own kind just feels wrong. But in the animal kingdom, things don’t always follow our human rules or feelings. For some creatures, eating their own kind is a ...