How bats actually fly to find their prey
Bat flying at night. Night-time flights are more elaborate than daytime ones. Bats continuously rise and dip in curved flight trajectories, using large movements...
Sensory differences and the ‘evolutionary arms race’ between predators and prey
The mating songs of katydids, a greener, longer-legged cousin of crickets, have different acoustical characteristics that attract different species of bats.
Credit: Alex Lang
A new...
Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments
Bats (stock image).
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Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise...
Evolution in species may reverse predator-prey population cycles
Male lion attack huge buffalo bull.
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Populations of predators and their prey usually follow predictable cycles. When the number of...
Dingo poisoning should be stopped to protect native Australian mammals
This is a dingo in the Australian bush. A new study shows the poisoning of dingoes has a deleterious effect on small native mammals...
In the egg, American bullfrogs learn how to avoid becoming lunch
American bullfrog at the E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area in the Willamette Valley.
Credit: Photo by Lynn Ketchum, OSU
When exposed to potential predators as an...
New limits to functional portion of human genome reported
The functional portion of the human genome probably falls between 10 percent and 15 percent, with an upper limit of 25 percent, suggests new...
The last survivors on Earth may well be the tardigrade
Planet Earth. The tardigrade, also known as the water bear, is the toughest, most resilient, form of life on Earth.
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The...
Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
Before the low oxygen period, bivalves were larger and more numerous.
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/Rowan Martindale
Using a combination of fossils and chemical...
Deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
Scientists ask how it's possible that certain coral reefs are thriving in this location.
Credit: Amy Baco-Taylor
Scientists have long believed that the waters of the...
Bitcoin study shows value of exclusive access for early adopters
A study of how MIT students used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin shows that delaying access for tech-savvy early adopters can stifle the spread of new...
