The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level ...

Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems. Trophic cascades occur when predators limit the density and/or behavior of their prey and thereby enhance ...

Most snakes flee or fight when attacked. Then there are the dice snakes of Golem Grad, an island on a lake in North Macedonia. Grabbed by a predator, they writhe theatrically, soi ...

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New research on desert isopods' dietary preferences is the revelation of the complex factors influencing their food choices.

A trophic cascade is when an apex predator, like the gray wolf, indirectly benefits plants by controlling the number of plant eaters, in this case elk. The results of a 20-year study in ...

The creature had the potential to reach up to 30 feet long, making it possibly the largest shark of this type ever to have ...

Libraries have long been a place of creative and professional growth, and a new branch of the Kitchener Public Library, which broke ground last October, is no exception.

We don’t fully understand how to create an artificial placenta at the moment. We don’t really understand the intricacies of ...

Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems. Trophic cascades occur when predators limit the density and/or behavior of their prey and thereby enhance ...