Acuphagia and metal eating appears to be rarer in adult populations although a number of case studies from around the world have been published over the last decade.

A special type of bacteria can "eat" a nail in just three days, says a biotechnologist from Chile. Nadac Reales, who studies the microorganisms from her lab in the industrial town of Antofagasta, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do.

Michel Lotito, better known as Monsieur Mangetout, holds the Guinness World Record for having the strangest diet in human history. Suffering from Pica, a disorder that causes cravings for non-food ...

In a previous blog I briefly examined pica (an eating behaviour in which individuals eat non-nutritive items or substances such as coal, hair and wood). One thing I was surprised to find out was how ...