In virus lockdown, Europe's predators regain turf
The hunter-prey drama took place just outside wildlife enthusiast Ennio Ciccotti's window, in the central Italian town of Scanno.
Ecology
Jun 16, 2020
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News tagged with carnivore
In stressed ecosystems Jurassic dinosaurs turned to scavenging, maybe even cannibalism
Big theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ate pretty much everything—including each other, according to a new study, "High Frequencies of Theropod Bite Marks Provide Evidence for Feeding, Scavenging, and ...
Archaeology
May 27, 2020
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The carnivorous plant lifestyle is gene costly
Plants can produce energy-rich biomass with the help of light, water and carbon dioxide. This is why they are at the beginning of the food chains. But carnivorous plants have turned the tables and prey on animals. Insects ...
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2020
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Rewilding bison in the Carpathians to preserve wilderness strongholds and migration routes
Nature is significantly degraded across much of Europe, impacted by factors such as infrastructure construction, intensive agriculture and forestry, and the disappearance of naturally occurring, large-bodied animals such ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2020
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'Fatal attraction': Small carnivores drawn to kill sites, then ambushed by larger kin
In many parts of the world, there is an imbalance in the food chain.
Ecology
Mar 18, 2020
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Understanding different brown bear personalities may help reduce clashes with people
The brown bear is one of Europe's five large carnivores and can sometimes cross paths with people, with potentially fatal consequences. But bears have different personalities and behaviours, say researchers, and understanding ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2020
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New predatory dinosaur added to Australia's prehistory
Evidence of agile, carnivorous two-legged dinosaurs known as noasaurids have been found across the now dispersed land masses that once formed the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana, but never in Australia—until ...
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2020
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The 'firewalkers' of Karoo: Dinosaurs and other animals left tracks in a 'land of fire'
In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a "land of fire" at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction, according to a study ...
Archaeology
Jan 29, 2020
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New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990s in Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Utah. The ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2020
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Human-caused biodiversity decline started millions of years ago
The human-caused biodiversity decline started much earlier than researchers used to believe. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters the process was not started by our own species but ...
Evolution
Jan 17, 2020
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