Predators

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Great white sharks coexisted alongside megalodon before rising to take the bigger shark's place at the top of the ocean food chain.

Great white sharks may have driven megalodon to extinction

By Cameron Duke last updated

For millions of years, megalodon was the top predator in marine ecosystems. Then great whites came along and ruined everything.

Sharks
Unfortunate sharks

4 Dead, Liverless Sharks Wash Ashore in Weird Whodunit

By Laura Geggel last updated

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A great white shark washed up on the Gansbaai coast in South Africa after two orca whales killed it and ate its liver.

Serial killer whales have been murdering sharks and eating their livers for 5 years

By Brandon Specktor last updated

A pair of killer whales has been terrorizing great white sharks near Capetown, slaughtering at least eight sharks over five years and eating their livers, scientists say.

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In this illustration, giant sharks scavenge the enormous corpse of Livyatan, an extinct, enormous sperm whale that lived around 12 million years ago.

What was megalodon's favorite snack? Sperm whale faces

By Mindy Weisberger last updated

New analysis of fossil skulls from sperm whales that lived millions of years ago shows that numerous species of ancient sharks preyed on the whales … and ate their faces.

Whales
In this 3D image, created from a CT scan of an anglerfish, researchers like Karly Cohen at the University of Washington can inspect bones and teeth that grow in unusual ways (or unusual places) in deep-sea anglerfish.

Anglerfish: Biology, bioluminescence and lifecycle

By Rachel Kaufman published

Reference Meet the fish that fish for other fish.

Reference
Geckos vigorously shook scorpions after catching them, then gulped them down whole.

'Berserker' geckos slam scorpions into oblivion before eating them, epic new footage shows

By Mindy Weisberger published

Violent head shaking helps normally placid geckos subdue dangerous scorpion prey.

Arachnids
Social spiders in the species Anelosimus eximius live in colonies that may include hundreds of individuals.

Spiders hunt in packs of hundreds to swarm prey

By Cameron Duke published

Pack hunting spiders use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks.

Spiders
A Greenland shark swimming in the St. Lawrence River estuary in Canada.

Greenland sharks: Toxic, half-blind giants of the ocean

By Patrick Pester published

Greenland sharks may have a lifespan of hundreds of years in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans, where much about their lives remains a mystery.

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A woman holds up a hamburger

Are humans at the top of the food chain?

By Isobel Whitcomb published

Lions, wolves and great white sharks have no natural predators, except humans. Does that mean humans are at the top of the food chain?

Human Behavior
After giant hornets (Vespa soror) invade the bees' hives, they slaughter the adults and take the bees' young to feed their own larvae.

Bees 'shriek' when attacked by giant cousins of 'murder hornets'

By Mindy Weisberger published

Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.

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