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 ...

Marine biologists tested predictions about biological invasions, first in Panama and then in an experiment of unprecedented geographic scale. Night and day, oil tankers, yachts and cargo ships stacked ...

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 ...

We show that the price wars following two major entry episodes were predatory. Our proof is twofold: by direct comparison of price to marginal cost, and by construction of a lower bound to predicted ...

Research has confirmed killer whales were responsible for bite wounds on a dead white shark that washed up on a beach near Portland, Victoria. It is the first killer whale predation on a white shark ...

The African penguins we know and love may not be around for much longer. Organisations like BirdLife South Africa, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob), WWF ...

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 ...