From western toad tadpoles to glowing wetlands, this year’s winners capture nature’s beauty—and its fragility.

The long-tailed weasel is found in the same areas as the ermine but is less common. Long-tailed weasels modify the nests and burrows of prey as homes. The long-tailed weasel is carnivorous and its ...

ruptor keeps engulfed algae in a special compartment. Enzymes in this chamber appear to dissolve one side of the prey’s cell wall. The other side is attached to the chamber wall. As the ...

There had been reports of other fish species following sea robins around, perhaps deputizing the legged fish as scouts to track down out-of-sight prey. Some decades-old papers had detected neural ...

Their unique pinchers are used for attacking predators or catching prey. Although not poisonous ... the weasel is closely related to ermine, ferrets, polecats and minks and are in the same ...

More recently, scientists have discovered that predation can also influence the size of the prey population by acting as a top-down control. In reality, the interaction between these two forms of ...

Some species of sea robins, such as Prionotus carolinus, also use their legs to dig up prey buried in the sand. (They’re so good at hunting that other fish are known to opportunistically follow ...

Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped inside the cavities of their broken teeth have revealed new insights into the prey the so-called Tsavo man-eaters once hunted. The harrowing ...

ErmineAlso known as the Short-Tailed Weasel (Mustela erminea), the Ermine undergoes a dramatic ... This helps them stalk ...

Unlike Watling Street, Ermine Street has one clear starting point and a clear direct route. The name Ermine Street is not the road's original Roman name; instead, it is the Saxon name for the road ...

Prey species must be well adapted to escape predators for their species to continue. If the prey population in an ecosystem grows, predator numbers will respond to the increased food supply by ...