Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

Scientists have observed a little-known species of meat-eating bee that sports an extra tooth for biting flesh. According to a recent paper on the bees, they use their extra tooth to pull and gather ...

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 ...

However, the vulture bees have bacteria that helps them both eat meat and protect them from food poisoning. "The vulture bee microbiome is enriched in acid-loving bacteria, which are novel bacteria ...

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.

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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 ...

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.