Find out how birds fight back against predators of birds in the wild, including alarm calls, swooping, mobbing behaviors, and ...

On my recent trip to Houston, I built in plenty of time to explore areas along the Gulf Coast and vicinity. Once outside of the sphere of Houston, one can get into wide-open, sparsely inhabited places ...

When it comes to the sky, birds usually rule the air, but not always. There are powerful hunters out there that send even the boldest flocks into a panic. These aren’t just predators; they’re apex ...

Can we have too many of a certain animal in the wild? Well, let me see what I can give you to argue about on that topic.

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went extinct. Evolution occasionally indulges ...

Beneath the tropical trees of southern Mexico, enormous shoals of sulfur mollies blanket the water surface of toxic sulfur springs, where survival depends on collective defense against relentless ...

Written for you by our author Krystal Kasal, edited by Gaby Clark, and fact-checked and reviewed by Andrew Zinin —this article is the result of careful human work. We rely on readers like you to keep ...

A handful of bite marks on a fossil tens of millions of years old speaks to an ancient tussle between two terrifying apex predators. Reading time 2 minutes Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ...

A great kiskadee is captured mid-flight immediately after launching an unsuccessful overflight attack on a shoal of sulphur mollies. The image shows the bird with its wings fully extended as it passes ...