Predators

Fearsome yet tiny creatures have one of the fastest strikes in the animal kingdom.

In the Amazon lowlands, spiders as big as dinner plates dine on opossums.

There is no animal across the Americas that has been given more names than the hemisphere's dominant hunting cat often known as the mountain lion. Here's a look at the evasive predator.

Which unfortunate animal will wander too close to this ugly burrow fish's horrible mouth first?

Everybody has a plan until they get head-butted by an alligator.

A female jumping spider went to great lengths in a leaping experiment.

Llanocetus denticrenatus lived about 34 million years ago. It was big. It was an early ancestor of modern humpbacks and blue whales. And it had teeth.

Extinction is not a good thing. Why are people still arguing about this?

A colorful sea slug feasts on microscopic marine creatures called zooplankton, but it captures more of them in a gulp by using a middleman.

With a skull-piercing bite, a jaguar makes a caiman into a meal.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Sept. 26, 2017.

One unique arachnid found not only in the Sonoran Desert but also in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts is the desert tarantula. Check out these amazing photos of desert tarantulas.

Four legs good, two legs bad? Not if you're a jerboa, a tiny, bipedal, desert rodent.

Praying mantises primarily hunt insects and spiders, but a new study found that for many large mantises, birds are also on the menu.

For a dozen species of praying mantises, birds aren't the predators — they're the prey.

Scientific discovery takes patience, determination, focus and perseverance. And sometimes it also takes 2,879 Plasticine caterpillars.