There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

When the digestive system kicks into overdrive, their metabolism also increases. To aid in digestion, they produce powerful stomach acid capable of dissolving bones, fur, feathers, and scales, leaving ...

Snakes don’t bite and chew like we do. They swallow their food whole, sometimes animals many times bigger than their heads and rely on a digestive system that’s radically different from ours. From ...