Cannibalism

The CHARA Array’s survey has unveiled the presence of stripped subdwarf stars orbiting Be stars, highlighting a crucial stage in the life cycle of close binary stars and advancing our understanding of stellar dynamics and evolution. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAstronomers using Georgia State’s CHARA Array have detected the faint light of stellar corpses beside predator stars.Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have completed a survey of…

The sex life of a tiny Australian marsupial known as an antechinus is already pretty bizarre. But now its mating season has gotten even stranger – and darker – thanks to the introduction of cannibalism, as observed by field researchers.The great majority of these small marsupials live along the Great Dividing Range on the eastern coast of Australia. There are 15 different species of antechinus, with most living in hollow trees and resembling mice. What truly sets them apart from many other rodents and marsupials though,…

The story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors who resorted to cannibalism, is powerfully retold in this movie from Spanish director JA Bayona. It is based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci and not (or only indirectly) taken from Piers Paul Read’s pioneering 1974 classic Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which popularised the idea that their cannibalism had become a kind of mysterious secular Eucharist, eating the blood and body of one’s…

The title of Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 novel Bones and All is as literal as they come. In its eat-or-be-eaten world, even the cannibals have a strict “clean your plate” rule. The idea is if you’re going to be digging in to a fellow human being, at least have the table manners to devour him whole: muscles, organs, bones and all. To digest bones, however, is not a metabolic ability natural to humans. The cannibals, or “eaters” as DeAngelis calls them, are implied to be supernatural beings. This is where Luca Guadagnino’s…

Looking for evidence of bite marks that hinted at prehistoric predators hunting our ancient relatives, one researcher has instead found clues to the oldest record of butchering and potential cannibalism instead.The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner and team have described nine cut marks on a 1.45-million-year-old shin bone that hails from a Homo sapiens relative, found in northern Kenya in 1970. The exact species of hominin has been debated since its discovery.Observing 3D…

In 1970, the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found an ancient, nondescript leg bone sitting on the ground in Ileret, Kenya. Now, 53 years on, a research team has found marks on the bone they believe could be evidence of “systematic cannibalism” in the hominin fossil record.Stay in Your Seats, It's Gonna Be a Bumpy Flight | Extreme EarthThe tibia, dated to around 1.45 million years old, has a series of small cut marks perpendicular to the bone. It’s not certain whichspecies the tibia belonged to, but it certainly…

Every day, upon leaving her Catholic high school, Agustina Bazterrica and her friends were followed by the same predatory man who would aim “the most terrible words” in their direction. A different man once masturbated in front of her on a packed train. “No one did anything,” she recalls. Coupled with the epidemic of violence against women in her native Argentina – where 212 femicides were reported in 2022 – these early experiences nurtured the feeling that “because you are a woman, anything can happen to you at any…

Dakota Johnson had fun with some off-color jokes that referred to Armie Hammer and the cannibalism scandal that torpedoed his career, while presenting an award to director Luca Guadagnino at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night. The actor, who worked with Guadagnino in films “Suspiria” and “A Bigger Splash,” elicited some groans, laughs and cheers after she made a humorous reference to Hammer, another famous star of a Guadagnino film, while presenting the International Icon award to the director at a dinner that…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDakota Johnson shocked a crowd at Sundance with a bold joke about Armie Hammer’s cannibalism allegations.The actor was presenting an award to director Luca Guadagnino, with whom she has worked on films including A Bigger Splash and Suspiria.Johnson made the quip while discussing the filmmaker’s Call Me By Your Name, in which Hammer starred alongside Timothée Chalamet.“It was here at…

Though Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino claims his latest film is a beautiful romance, the cannibalism flick has more so become one of the most-talked about horror movies as of late. Much of the conversation surrounding the production (which is the second collaboration between Timothée Chalamet and the Call Me by Your Name director) is about the brutal scenes that show the lead characters consuming human flesh. Well, co-lead Taylor Russell revealed what she and her co-stars were actually eating during those…