Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...

This video examines one of South America’s most unusual predators and the traits that set it apart from typical hunters. Its behavior, physical adaptations, and hunting strategy challenge long-held ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched equid. Here’s why.

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...

A tiny, lizardlike carnivore that skittered across swampy ground roughly 300 million years ago helped set the stage for some of the largest plant eaters the planet has ever seen. Its story is a ...

A new study suggests that the babies of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth were once a crucial food source for meat-eating predators. According to research led by a scientist from University ...

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, ...

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 ...

The leopard, the most graceful of Africa's predators, is feared throughout the continent. Leopards do not consider humans to be special, aside from their being easy prey that neither bite nor scratch ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing ...