At the level of the community, predation reduces the number of individuals in the prey population. The best-known examples of predation involve carnivorous interactions, in which one animal ...

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 ...

Humans have long been successful predators, thanks to our advanced cognition ... In the study, published on June 29 in Communications Biology, the team analyzed data from the International ...

"The drill holes in Devonian hederellids are the earliest unambiguous examples of selective predation on a colonial metazoan, and these may be the most ancient examples of a prey organism ...

One factor influencing such movement is the avoidance of predation. Avian species with multiple clutches provide a good system to study how predation influences territorial movements within a breeding ...

Examples of Lapworthella ... in the journal Current Biology, the study provides the first demonstrable record of an evolutionary arms race in the Cambrian. “Predator-prey interactions are ...