The investigative minds at How to Survive examine the physics of how a giant snake squeezes its prey and whether a human could ever actually be eaten whole.

CUDDLING his two children as he happily gazed into the camera, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes appears like any doting ...

In this episode, we rank the largest land mammals to have ever existed using estimated maximum weights, comparing each giant to modern animals to keep the scale clear. We travel from Australia’s ...

70 — Five-year survival rate across all cancers. (The rate applies to the percentage of people who are alive five years after initial diagnosis or start of treatment for a disease. In 1971 when the ...

As snow settles on the ground and temperatures drop, it’s easy to think most animals are doing what plenty of people do—curling up somewhere warm and waiting out the freeze.

Wild predators must regularly hunt or forage to survive. While many animals graze or scavenge, large constrictor snakes rely on overpowering and swallowing prey whole. But even experienced predators ...

By far, the zebra's most iconic feature is their brilliant black-and-white stripes. If you want a quirky animal name that ...

Ben Lazarus filmed the moment his lifelong-vegetarian friend Ziggy Murphy tried meat for the first time after a birthday bet ...

Spinosaurus in the Sahara Desert in Niger, a discovery that adds to the debate over whether the prehistoric creatures were fully or semi-aquatic]]> ...

The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

A new website connects AI agents with human gig workers capable of performing real-world 'meatspace' tasks the AIs cannot do on their own ...