Chick-fil-A is A+. McDonald’s may be the biggest fast food chain in the US, but is it the de facto best? Not according to a recent survey, which placed Chick-fil-A atop the Mount Rushmore of US ...

This film explains how plants and animals obtain energy from food, highlighting the energy needs of various creatures like geese, caterpillars, and squirrels. It demonstrates that while animals ...

Discover what a food chain is and learn how animals and plants get their energy. Find out what the producer is in the food chain in this KS2 guide.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Supersize Appetites: When Bugs Crawl (or Jump) Up the Food Chain.

Temperature rises due to the global climate crisis are putting growing pressure on food chains, ultimately threatening the survival of larger animals, new research shows.

This means the least abundant animals within a community are at the top of a food chain: the predators. Nothing within a food chain will eat the top predator.

Some megalodons (O todus megalodon) may have been “hyper apex predators,” higher up the food chain than any ocean animal ever known, researchers report in the June 22 Science Advances.

AI is set to reshape the future of how we source, store and distribute our food, replacing outdated methods with more effective, modern solutions.

While many fast-food joints claim they serve “real” chicken, some still rely on antibiotic-laden, factory-farmed mystery meat. Here are 7 chains that actually use high-quality, real chicken.

Among the nation’s major restaurant chains, In-N-Out is still supreme when it comes to the satisfaction of its workers, according to a new study.

On the surface, plummeting populations of sharks do not seem like much cause for concern for humans or, for that matter, other sea life. But this simple viewpoint relies on splitting animals into ...

A food chain shows how plants and animals depend on each other as their source of food. For instance, a caterpillar eats plants, mice eat caterpillars and owls eat mice.