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 ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

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Examples of Lapworthella fasciculata shells (under scanning electron microscope) from the Mernmerna Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, showing holes made by a perforating predator. Scale ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive as newly evolved ...

More than half a billion years ago, mystery predators bored into shelled animals' defensive casings. Some of the holey shells ...

The drill holes found in shells show the clearest, most complete form of predator/prey interaction found in the fossil record. If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20 ...

Giant land snail populations are recovering in areas that have received targeted predator control over the last 15 years, according to experts. Getty Images/iStockphoto For the last 15 years, wildlife ...

Using shells from the recent fossil record, researchers have determine that interactions between predator and prey in the northern Adriatic Sea have significantly declined due to human activity. If ...