Drinking animal milk is pretty wild when you think about it – not only did a human have to look at an udder and think, “I need in on that,” but we also started drinking the stuff before our bodies ...

An adult female seal and a young seal lay side by side in grass. Atlantic gray seal mothers (shown, left) feed their young on high-fat milk that is also rich in complex sugars to support their ...

Human breast milk has long reigned as the most complex known mammal milk. But another species might dethrone us: gray seals. In a study published November 25 in the journal Nature Communications, ...

Most conversations about breast milk tend to focus on topics like nutrients, antibodies and bonding time rather than bacteria ...