Predators avoid people, yet food, pets and surprise encounters can erase that caution. Smart habits keep wild space intact for us.

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Across land, sea, and air, they use a mix of stealth, mimicry, and lightning-fast attacks to feed, and in some cases, defend themselves.

Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way. But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them communicate, sometimes over long distances, but it can also reveal them to ...

I've long been interested in ways in which humans can peacefully coexist with so-called "problem" animals, including predators. In most cases, conservation protocols that call for killing these ...

If you’re able, watch this video. If not, allow me to explain. Two crown-of-thorns starfish are placed in separate tanks. Ordinary seawater is poured into one. In the other, seawater that a giant ...

A study examining fossil evidence shows that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago. University of Toronto Mississauga researchers Jordan M.