Almost all animals eat living things, so in a sense most are predators. We normally restrict the term, though, to cases in which the animal chases and kills its prey. Nevertheless, the models we will ...

The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has been ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 62, No. 10 (Aug., 2008), pp. 1655-1663 (9 pages) Insect larvae increase in size with several orders of magnitude throughout development making them more ...

In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast of Norway, where a swarm of cod overtook them, consuming over 10 million fish in a few hours. The team ...

If there is one type of creature that competes with dragons for space in most geek imaginations, it’s the dinosaur. Leave it to Monte Cook Games, creators of Numenera and The Strange, to tap into this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract (1) Predation experiments were carried out in which frozen dead melanic and typical individuals of Biston betularia, Allophyes oxyacanthae and ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Norwegian scientists have documented what they believe to be the largest predation event ever recorded ...

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A farmer who has camera footage of badgers attacking his sheep has disputed the findings of research that suggests it is foxes that are largely to blame for predation in Scottish flocks. Robbie Wilson ...