For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic ...

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To increase their chances of survival, prey often behave unpredictably when escaping from predators. However, the response of predators to, and hence the effectiveness of, such tactics is unknown. We ...

The animal kingdom is full of animals with grand and funky defensive tactics to help them avoid being eaten by would-be predators. However, some creatures, like Japanese eels, take things to an ...

Some slimy sea creatures have a very strange way of escaping predators, even after they've been swallowed. Baby Japanese eels have been spotted escaping from the stomachs of fish that have eaten them ...

Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract then squeezing themselves out of the predator's gills. In a scientific first ...

A common belief among ecologists is that, in a way, predators help their prey by removing the weak and sick from the population and reducing the chance of disease spread. But that idea, known as the ...

Frontal-facing eyes are a hallmark of predator species. Source: Nesrin Ozturk/Pexels One of the most controversial aspects of my work exploring the relationship between horse and human brains is the ...

(CNN) — When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the ...