The foraging strategy may help humpbacks be more resilient to food scarcity, emphasizing the importance of preserving their ...

A fish with legs uses them to “taste” the seabed for prey, reveals new research. Sea robins have the body of a fish, the wings of a bird, and six legs, similar to a crab. Two new studies have revealed ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

An alarming decrease in prey fish south of Long Island Sound has cast a shadow over Connecticut's ascending population of osprey, which have rebounded from near extinction, according to the ...

A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California Davis, US, and colleagues report in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

Scientists have revealed for the first time that some fish sneak up on their prey by hiding behind sharks. The previously unknown behaviour was discovered by a team of researchers, including ...

Striped marlin are some of the fastest animals on the planet and one of the ocean's top predators. When hunting in groups, individual marlin will take turns attacking schools of prey fish one at a ...

The quantity of fish food in Lake Michigan hit a record low for the second straight year in 2007, a trend that could be disastrous for the salmon fishery if it continues. The volume of all prey fish ...

Why do animals actually hunt in groups, if they have to share the prey afterwards? Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), in which Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ...