News articles tagged with 'predators'
Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
— 6 Aug 2009 08:57 | BiologyIn a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in... — full story
Bizarre walking bat has ancient heritage
— 29 Jul 2009 18:48 | Geology and palaeontologyA bizarre New Zealand bat that is as much at home walking four-legged on the ground as winging through the air had an Australian ancestor 20 million years ago with the same rare ability,... — full story
Field Museum scientist describes first vertebrate to live in trees
— 29 Jul 2009 16:28 | Geology and palaeontologyIn the Late Palaeozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators... — full story
Looking different 'helps animals to survive'
— 23 Jul 2009 15:45 | BiologyIn the animal kingdom, everything is not as it seems. Individuals of the same species can look very different from each other - what biologists term 'polymorphism'... — full story
Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case
— 20 Jul 2009 17:34 | BiologyResearchers are proposing in a new report that a major experiment be conducted to reintroduce wolves to a test site in the Scottish Highlands, to help control the populations and behaviour... — full story
Discovery of a water snake that predicts the direction its prey will flee
— 19 Jun 2009 07:56 | BiologyForget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotising their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water snake has found a way... — full story
Evolution can occur in less than 10 years
— 11 Jun 2009 11:56 | BiologyHow fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside's Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology... — full story
Midge keeps invasive mosquito in check, aiding native mosquitoes
— 4 Jun 2009 15:14 | BiologyIn a drama played out across the southeastern U.S. in containers as small as a coffee cup, native and invasive mosquito larvae compete for resources and try to avoid getting eaten.... — full story
Predators ignore peculiar prey
— 13 May 2009 01:17 | BiologyRare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Ecology found that birds will target... — full story
Study reveals 'sobering' decline of Caribbean's big fish, fisheries
— 6 May 2009 18:30 | EnvironmentSharks, barracuda and other large predatory fishes disappear on Caribbean coral reefs as human populations rise, endangering the region's marine food web and ultimately its reefs and... — full story