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, there has been ...

Almost all animals eat living things, so in a sense most are predators. We normally restrict the term, though, to cases in which the animal chases and kills its prey. Nevertheless, the models we will ...

Species interactions are widely assumed to be stronger at lower latitudes, but surprisingly few experimental studies test this hypothesis, and none ties these processes to observed patterns of species ...

Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of sharks from the area and triggering ecological cascades. These events have ...

Research has confirmed killer whales were responsible for bite wounds on a dead white shark that washed up on a beach near Portland, Victoria. It is the first killer whale predation on a white shark ...