Predators
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What were the largest predators in North America?
By Joanna Thompson published
Here are the largest predators ever to have lived in North America.
Humans are practically defenseless. Why don't wild animals attack us more?
By Patrick Pester published
Humans are slow and weak compared with bears, pumas and other large predators, but these beasts usually avoid us. Why don't these animals try to eat us more often?
Ancient hippo-size reptile was a quick and ferocious killing machine
By Mindy Weisberger published
Millions of years before dinosaurs appeared, the hefty reptile Anteosaurus was a deadly predator. Scientists just learned that it was also unexpectedly speedy.
Snakes insert their heads into living frogs' bodies to swallow their organs (because nature is horrifying)
By Mindy Weisberger published
In two new studies, researchers identified more snakes that disembowel frogs to eat their organs, a gruesome habit that was only recently discovered.
Video captures unusual death of baby bird drowned by a fish
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists recently captured video documenting the first reported instance of a fish preying on a newly-hatched baby bird, in a flooded nest in coastal Georgia.
Spiders hoist big prey with silk 'pulleys' — and now scientists know how
By Mindy Weisberger published
Ingenious web construction allows tangle web spiders to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.
Whodunit solved when 'sword' is found embedded in thresher shark
By Laura Geggel published
It's a mystery why a swordfish stabbed a thresher shark to death, but it's possible they were competing for food.
Alien-like photo shows eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midair
By Laura Geggel published
The eel probably thought "not today" as it burrowed out of the heron's stomach.
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