We humans aren’t so surprised when creepy-looking animals cannibalize each other. Black widow spiders or praying mantises munching on their mates make sense somehow—they look a little monstrous to ...

Matriphagy is a type of animal behavior where the young eat their own mother. It is the ultimate display of maternal martyrdom and takes motherly love to the highest level. You can see it in action in ...

Parental care in the animal world is often viewed through the lens of sacrifice– but in a few species, that sacrifice goes far beyond what most would expect. While many animals protect and raise their ...

Spiders are typically thought of as solitary creatures that don’t partake in social pleasantries unless it has something to do with mating. But as new research shows, the African velvet spider is an ...

Raising offspring is expensive. It costs you time, it costs you money, and for some species: it costs you your life. This is the grisly fate of the African social spider, Stegodyphus dumicola, a ...

Talk about long-suffering moms—some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive, a new study says. The species Stegodyphus dumicola, native to South Africa, lives in large family groups that ...

Venom Prison have released a live video of their brutalising track Matriphagy, recorded at last year's Damnation Festival. Matriphagy is the technical term for live offspring consuming their mother.