Results show that players’ choices echo predator-prey patterns seen in wildlife, though scientists stress the limits of the ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

A new study shows how the disappearance of an apex predator, the great white shark, from South Africa’s False Bay triggered changes throughout the food chain. With the loss of the top predator in the ...

Functional response describes the relationship between prey density and the rate at which a predator consumes prey, forming a key concept in understanding predator–prey interactions. It encompasses ...

The zoo’s public request has drawn lively debate online with some protesting the idea of turning pets into prey, and others praising the zoo’s efforts to maintain natural feeding behaviors A zoo in ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

The decline of large predators such as big cats, wolves, sharks and giant whales may be "humankind's most pervasive influence on the natural world," causing prey animals to swell in population and ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in northeastern China has revealed a twisted prehistoric food chain – a dinosaur species that devoured a mammal, which itself may have preyed on dinosaurs. The findings, ...

A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The ...