The predatory bacterium Myxococcus xanthus (left) slaughtering its prey (right). Black dots are predator aggregates called fruiting bodies and the rippling waves in the contact…
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Researchers challenge the idea of an arms race between bats and insects, suggesting that the barbastelle bat’s quiet calls are inherited from quieter gleaner ancestors,…
Asian hornets. New research from the University of Exeter has revealed the buff-tailed bumblebee’s unique defensive strategy against Asian hornets: they drop to the ground…
A reconstruction of Thylacosmilus atrox. Credit: © Jorge Blanco How the “Marsupial Sabertooth” Thylacosmilus Saw Its World Study describes how extinct hypercarnivore likely achieved 3D…
Lead author Alison Towner with the carcass of a Great White Shark washed up on shore following an Orca attack. Credit: Marine Dynamics/ Dyer Island…
Megalodons are known only from the teeth they left behind. Here, a megalodon tooth (left) is compared to a great white shark tooth. Each inch…
Credit: Anna Zora A predator doesn’t need to have the quickest speed or reflexes to catch a bird. In a paper publishing August 23 in…