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 fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

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One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Each year on the Serengeti, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest calves are born within weeks. Here's how the young predators ...

When people build cities and introduce invasive creatures, resident critter populations sometimes adapt Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent When humans build cities and introduce invasive species, ...