Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the ...

Remington J. Moll, Patrick J. Jackson, Brian F. Wakeling, Carl W. Lackey, Jon P. Beckmann, Joshua J. Millspaugh and Robert A. Montgomery Apex predators can shape communities via cascading top–down ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including ...

Stigma against predators and what their presence means has prompted a string of wolf-poisonings in Oregon in the past year alone. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Predators and carnivores: ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...

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CAIRO (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Researchers at the American University in Cairo have uncovered a nearly complete skull of a prehistoric predator known as a 'Bastetodon.' This apex carnivore, which roamed ...

Wolves attack two bull elk in Yellowstone National Park. “Le mot juste,” Gustave Flaubert called it, “the right word.” No matter their subject, writers know in their bones that words matter. That is ...

A grey wolf prowls through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth Hot Springs in Montana. A group of 66 wolves was reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in the late 1990s. They now total 2,800 ...