They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...

Video footage of a suspected coyote sprinting across the east side of Lancaster city has residents speculating about whether ...

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals, and macroalgae. These crustaceans have been misnamed for two reasons: First, they’re not true ...

Study Reveals Interdependence of Early Humans With Small Scavengers to Facilitate Evolution of Ecosystem A research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the ...

While smaller scavenging animals such as foxes and some bird species benefited from the presence of humans, large scavengers such as hyenas and cave lions tended to be displaced. Many carnivores ...

Scientists have long debated whether the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex was a ferocious hunter or just a scavenger that feasted on the carcasses of already dead animals. In 2013, a broken tooth of a ...