Steve took BBC Food to an edible forest garden to explain how to grow your own without (too much) effort, and how forest gardening differs from your usual veg patches. Fruit and veg patch vs ...

Edible insects are often portrayed as something of a sustainable superfood - an environmentally friendly alternative to livestock. But who is already eating them and do they actually taste any ...

“Many people know about edible flowers often used on cakes and in drinks – such as violas, geraniums, borage and elderflower, ...

The little gummies are packed with protein, but not from soy or gelatine. They are instead made from an edible, jumping insect - locusts, which are a type of grasshopper. "Grasshoppers taste like ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

Desiree DeNunzio is the gift guide editor for CNET's Commerce team. When she's not writing and editing, she's either hiking through the redwoods or curled up with a good book and a lazy dog ...

Gould confirmed that it was a distinct species and called it Rhea darwinii (a name later changed because of taxonomic technicalities) for the man who had rescued it from the midden. What intrigued ...

At the risk of triggering a fresh battle in the culture war, I think it’s fair to say that all of life and the universe is rarely black and white. With the possible exception of binary currents ...