Trail cameras capture stunning footage of rare predators on hunt: 'Fewer than 120 animals'

Wildlife cameras stationed throughout Oman's mountainous Dhofar region recorded two Arabian leopards hunting and eating their prey, the first footage of its kind ever captured, The Kansas City Star ...
Post and Courier

ECOVIEWS: How do prey animals protect themselves from predators?

Animals protect themselves from being eaten by other animals in countless ways. Some are commonplace. Others are unconventional. Camouflage and running are well-known defenses. Not being seen by a ...

AI reveals which predators chewed ancient humans’ bones – challenging ideas on which ‘Homo’ species was the first tool-using hunter

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Hide From Predators, Some Animals Camouflage Into Their Surroundings, While Others Display Bright Colors as a Warning. What Keeps Them Safest?

Animals need to get creative to survive in the wild. While some feature bright “warning colors” to keep predators away, a strategy called aposematism, others have evolved to stay hidden in their ...