Cobras are highly poisonous. But the fierce, agile, intelligent mongoose has a unique advantage—resistance to snake venom!

A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants ... 15 million years of the evolutionary history of mammals ...

Unfortunately, this potential power struggle between two apex predators can have devastating effects on the marine ecosystem.

So yeah, it matters. A lot. The study isn’t just a eulogy for False Bay’s sharks, it’s a red flag for the rest of the planet.

Not long ago, most of this area was an unbroken expanse of green dominated by top predators like jaguars and harpy eagles. In the middle of the food chain were animals like howler monkeys which ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination ... Cape of Good Hope – and the cascading effects of the loss of a top predator have ...