Somewhere down below, other things also must live, I realized, for those creatures to feed upon.

The real creature did not live at the same time as dinosaurs and probably fed on insects.

Again, though, since these tiny creatures have been feeding off me all these years, I will let them continue for the present.

But such a creature could hardly stand still in the water like that, and would not feed on watercress.

Essentially, the house is now alive, and like all living creatures must feed, which it does by absorbing them.

The creature had fed somehow on the dying man.

It is time to go to sea, away from these muddy waters, for this creature must feed.

The creature was feeding on packing debris - and took off uphill at high speed.

The creature in question feeds on neutrons in the body.

Or it may have been diminished by the fact that fewer creatures now fed it.