Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists often divide predator species into two camps: ...

Second: "Predators eat significantly smaller prey whose size range does not vary with their own size." These are, for example, baleen whales, which filter feed on krill regardless of age, size or ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing this question, a recent study shows that predator and prey behaviors ...

Marine predator–prey interactions underpin the structure and function of coastal, pelagic and deep-sea environments. Predation exerts top-down control on prey populations, driving evolutionary ...

Researchers found that fish follow turtles in Louisiana canals to snatch up prey stirred by the turtles' movement.

Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Most predators are opportunistic hunters. If a species is open to eating multiple types of prey, it can improve its odds of finding food and surviving. However, some predators have taken a very ...

Researchers used computational simulations to demonstrate how simple sensing and movement rules—such as detection of distance and speed changes—constrain predator–prey interactions. In a simplified ...