Cannibalism

Snakes Resort to Cannibalism When the Opportunity Strikes, Study Shows

It's a snake-eat-snake world.

Biology Passant Rabie Feb 18

Neanderthal Woman And Child on display at a museum

New Evidence Suggests Neanderthals Cannibalized Outsider Women and Children

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

Human History Ellyn Lapointe Nov 28

Ice Age Cannibals: Prehistoric Europeans Cracked Skulls and Ate Brains, Study Suggests

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Human History Margherita Bassi Feb 11

Killed, Butchered and Cannibalized: Archaeologists Uncover Horrific Prehistoric Massacre in Britain

The shocking violence was likely an attempt to dehumanize and "other" the enemy, according to archaeologists.

Human History Margherita Bassi Dec 15

Artist's rendition of sailors abandoning the HMS Terror

Archaeologists Identify Franklin Expedition Captain Who Became Food for His Crew

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive.

Human History Adam Kovac Sep 27

These Male Spiders Evolved a Post-Sex Catapult to Escape Cannibalistic Females

Researchers believe the trait is an adaptation to counter the females’ post-coital hunger.

Biology Isaac Schultz Apr 25

Newborn Megalodons Were Larger Than Adult Humans and Probably Ate Their Siblings

Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus megalodon. Everything’s hunky-dory—some baby sharks have already hatched, and others are on the way. But before any more of those egg-bound brethren can emerge, one of the baby sharks wriggles over and gobbles them up. That…

Biology Isaac Schultz Jan 10

Cannibal! The Musical Has No Right Being as Good as It Is

Having watched Cannibal! The Musical is one of those things that feels like a badge of honor. The movie was not something anyone saw first in theaters. It had to be discovered. You had to find it or be told about it by a friend. When you finally watched, you were rewarded with proof of…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 26

This Was Not His Design: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Could Have Been Hugh Grant

It’s not an overstatement to say that Hannibal, Bryan Fuller’s nouveau gothic drama take on the Hannibal Lecter mythos, made Mads Mikkelsen’s career in Hollywood. But casting a nearly unknown Danish actor for a lead role in a prime-time network drama is not easy, as Fuller will tell you. And it took NBC some time…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 31

USDA Says It Will Stop Killing Cats

Following the outcry over a disturbing government research practice that resulted in what critics have described as kitten slaughter, a research agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will no longer conduct the deadly testing as part of its research. The practice in question was part of testing that’s related to toxoplasmosis…

Biology Catie Keck Apr 3

Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests

Neanderthals are famous for having lived through the last major ice age, yet for a period of around 14,000 years they had to endure the effects of a naturally occurring global warming cycle. Struggling to adapt to the changing conditions, the Neanderthals turned to cannibalism in desperation, according to a provocative and timely new study.…

Human History George Dvorsky Mar 29

Scientists Are Working on a Bath Salts Vaccine to Block the Scary High

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science are trying to create a vaccine for a class of drugs most infamously, if wrongly, accused of turning people into face-eating zombies commonly known as bath salts. And their latest results in rats, presented this week at the annual Experimental Biology conference, suggest that they’re on…

Health Ed Cara Apr 23

Here’s The Truth About Eating Placenta

I’m not going to tell you what to do with your baby’s placenta after birth. If the doctor lets you have it, and you would like to encapsulate it, sauté it, or even ink it to make placenta prints, that is your decision to make. But you should at least know whether scientists have found…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Dec 18

Is Eating Synthetic Human Flesh Cannibalism?

A disgusting factor which separates consuming human flesh from consuming muscle tissue of non-speaking animals is that you can’t separate eating dead humans from eating live humans. In the way that you call a baby cow “veal” or a pig “pork,” human flesh is just human flesh—you wouldn’t think about eating Dave’s “rounds” or his…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Oct 16

Virgin Velvet Spiders Allow Themselves to Be Eaten By Their Foster Kids

Spiders are typically thought of as solitary creatures that don’t partake in social pleasantries unless it has something to do with mating. But as new research shows, the African velvet spider is an exception to this rule. Mother spiders are assisted by closely-related virgin females who, in addition to engaging in child-rearing tasks, offer themselves…

Biology George Dvorsky Sep 18

Bone Etchings Suggest Ancient Cannibals Weren’t Just Doing It For the Meat

Distinctive zig-zag etchings on a prehistoric human bone found at Gough’s Cave in England suggests that Ice Age cannibals consumed human flesh not purely for the nutritional value, but as part of a sophisticated funeral practice. Scientists studying the 15,000-year-old human remains found at Gough’s Cave in Somerset, England, have already show that Ice Age…

Tech News George Dvorsky Aug 10

Actually, Cannibalism Can Be Good

Sometimes, we humans let our dumb values prevent us from taking biological realities seriously. Take pooping, for example: People have decided pooping is gross, even though it’s a thing that most of us do literally every day. Now, some scientists think that even cannibalism is worth another hard look. Cannibalism naturally occurs in lots of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 14

Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals to Save Themselves

In the caterpillar-versus-plant fight, the winner might seem obvious. One side sits motionless in the sun, while the other feasts on it. But the tomato plant has a nefarious defense strategy. In some encounters with herbivores, it winds up relatively unscathed, while the caterpillars wind up eating each other. Researchers have long known that plants…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 10

Watch Some Animals Eat Each Other While They Bone

Humans do some pretty freaky shit in the bedroom, but it usually falls short of decapitating and eating each other. Some of our cousins in the animal kingdom do not avoid these trifling taboos. “When you’re talking about cannibalism, it’s not cut-and-dry Jefferey Dahmer—it’s not just a starving creature, or animals cannibalizing each other because…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 14

Tempt Adventurous Dinner Guests With This Recipe From the Hannibal Cookbook

Hannibal may be gone from the airwaves, but it’s forever in our hearts, our nightmares, and on our dinner tables—thanks to Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook, a recipe collection is curated by the show’s food stylist, Janice Poon. And you don’t even need an appetite for human flesh to enjoy it. Feeding Hannibal, named for…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Oct 11

Cannibalism

Snakes Resort to Cannibalism When the Opportunity Strikes, Study Shows

New Evidence Suggests Neanderthals Cannibalized Outsider Women and Children

Ice Age Cannibals: Prehistoric Europeans Cracked Skulls and Ate Brains, Study Suggests

Killed, Butchered and Cannibalized: Archaeologists Uncover Horrific Prehistoric Massacre in Britain

Archaeologists Identify Franklin Expedition Captain Who Became Food for His Crew

These Male Spiders Evolved a Post-Sex Catapult to Escape Cannibalistic Females

Newborn Megalodons Were Larger Than Adult Humans and Probably Ate Their Siblings

Cannibal! The Musical Has No Right Being as Good as It Is

This Was Not His Design: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Could Have Been Hugh Grant

USDA Says It Will Stop Killing Cats

Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests

Scientists Are Working on a Bath Salts Vaccine to Block the Scary High

Here’s The Truth About Eating Placenta

Is Eating Synthetic Human Flesh Cannibalism?

Virgin Velvet Spiders Allow Themselves to Be Eaten By Their Foster Kids

Bone Etchings Suggest Ancient Cannibals Weren’t Just Doing It For the Meat

Actually, Cannibalism Can Be Good

Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals to Save Themselves

Watch Some Animals Eat Each Other While They Bone

Tempt Adventurous Dinner Guests With This Recipe From the Hannibal Cookbook

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