How do snakes manage to swallow and digest animals that are bigger than their heads? Unlike humans and many other animals, snakes don’t chew their food. They swallow their prey whole, which can ...
From frogs and sponges to jellyfish and tardigrades, scientists reveal how some animals digest food without defecating, ...
Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover.