Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other? Credit...Lydia Ortiz Supported by By Alexandra Alter A few years ago, the playwright and TV writer Megan Mostyn-Brown had an ...

A mom in Australia is being investigated for possible cannibalism after her 4-year-old son was found dead with a mutilated arm. The 32-year-old woman showed up at a police station in the town of Wyong ...

WARSAW – Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.

There’s a new trend in horror fiction: the female cannibal. In Monika Kim’s The Eyes are the Best Part (2025), a college student eats the eyeballs of the men who fetishise her. In Delilah S. Dawson’s ...

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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Snakes have been known to prey on ...

Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the North Pacific, and such cannibalism may explain why some orcas travel in large family groups. Two distinct subspecies of orcas, also called ...

The U.S. Department of Justice's documents released in January 2026 pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein contain evidence that Ellen DeGeneres is a cannibal. As the U.S. Department of Justice released ...

Scientists have uncovered yet another reason not to trust a snake—the slithering creatures have a habit of eating each other. A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 ...

In February 2026, after the U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a claim circulated that the files contained evidence ...

Researchers found cannibalism diets appeared among at least 207 snake species in 15 snake family groups Carlos Sanz/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Researchers Bruna Falcão and Omar ...