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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Species interactions are widely assumed to be stronger at lower latitudes, but surprisingly few experimental studies test this hypothesis, and none ties these processes to observed patterns of species ...

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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Finally, something to unite President Donald Trump, his Democratic opponents and the Canadians he's threatening to annex: a ferociously hungry carp. Around 200 years ago, bettongs were the most common ...