While most bees feed on pollen and nectar, scientists say some bees have developed a taste for rotting flesh. Researchers have learned that a stingless, tropical bee has evolved to have an extra tooth ...

Everyone knows evolution produces wonderful, brilliant lifeforms. And some seriously adorable ones. But sometimes a species needs to change in some pretty disgusting ways to adapt to its environment.

While most bees feed on pollen and nectar, scientists say some bees have developed a taste for rotting flesh. Researchers have learned that a stingless, tropical bee has evolved to have an extra tooth ...

A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside is studying a species of "vulture bee" that has swapped a vegetarian diet for carrion meat by developing an extra tooth and gut bacteria ...

To attract the vulture bees—a.k.a. carrion bees—the researchers set up pieces of raw chicken in the forest. When the bees arrived, they not only swarmed the raw, dead flesh, but also collected bits of ...

A little-known species of tropical bee has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh and a gut that more closely resembles that of vultures rather than other bees. Typically, bees don’t eat meat.

Mention foraging bees and most people will picture insects flitting from flower to flower in search of nectar. But in the jungles of Central and South America, “vulture bees” have developed a taste ...

A little-known species of tropical bee has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh and a gut that more closely resembles that of vultures rather than other bees. A little-known species of tropical bee ...

The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but certain species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows. To better understand this extreme shift ...