“Carnivory is primarily an adaptation for plants to get nutrients in low nutrient environments,” says Coogan. Carnivorous ...

In the corner of a garden covered in beautiful flowers and greenery, carnivorous plants quietly lie in wait for their prey.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - The partial skull of a tiger-sized predator that prowled what is now the Isle of Wight off England's ...

Plants and animals can depend on each other in surprisingly specialized ways, creating some of nature’s most unusual ...

Three sharp horns and a large, shield-like frill.Along with Tyrannosaurus, the Triceratops is one of the most popular ...

Most caterpillars eat leaves. The ones living in Hawaii's wet forests never got that memo, and their solution to island life upended everything entomologists thought they knew about one of nature's ...

Palaeoecology is the study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods. Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species and their environment.

The dinosaur, described in a new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science, belongs to a group of agile, two-legged ...

A study of eight fish species in the dammed Jialing River shows that gut microbial communities track feeding habits as ...

Early theropod species appear to have been mostly carnivorous. Over time, however, the group evolved into a diverse range of ...

Scientists have identified a 165-million-year-old mammal predecessor from China that had a broad tail for swimming and throat ...

A predatory mammal-like animal from the Jurassic seems to have characteristics of both a platypus and an otter.