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 ...

Most bees happily gather nectar and pollen from flowers for food, but there are exceptions. Bees are actually wasps that adopted a vegetarian lifestyle in the dim and distant past – and vulture bees ...

Some bees have developed a taste for carrion, in a delightfully twisted evolutionary turn. These vulture bees, as they’re known, feature unique gut microbes that help them digest meat. A team of ...