In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was grown at a lower temperature. In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils. This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago ...

I am responding to Greg Hanscom’s editorial referring to the lofty ideal that the mission for wildlife biologists is to work themselves out of a job (HCN, 3/31/03: Dear Friends). It seems to me that ...

Predators often fail to catch their prey because they cannot react instantly, and even a very small delay gives the prey time ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists often divide predator species into two camps: ...

A rare example of the reversal of a bacterial predator–prey relationship suggests that such species interactions are more complex than was realized. This is a rare example of the reversal of a ...

Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new ...

A new study looks at the predator-prey relationship between the seals and polar bears. The researchers say that relationship ...

The catfish Silurus asotus was fed eight aquatic beetle species of varying body sizes of the families Gyrinidae, Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae, including Regimbartia attenuata, to examine their escape ...

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 zone are characteristic ...