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We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. But if every animal only ate plants, Earth would look dramatically different.
A species that is an “apex” predator in one environment won’t necessarily remain so in another.
Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s left, and they tell a story of an apex predator that vanished.
As authorities grapple with the best way to respond to the tragedy, it’s worth remembering all shark mitigation measures come with both merits and drawbacks – and none is a silver bullet.
The fossil of a gigantic ichthyosaur was recently discovered in the UK. It wasn’t the only creature lurking in the Jurassic oceans.
Looking a bit like enlarged woodlice, ancient trilobites crawled along the seabed and had an exoskeleton made of calcite — nature’s version of a suit of armour.
For the first time in the US, a ballot measure will ask voters whether to restore wolves to a place where they’ve been eradicated. Coloradans have strong views on both sides.
Framing cats as responsible for declines in biodiversity is based on faulty scientific logic and fails to account for the real culprit – human activity.
This study provides the first evidence that penguins emit sounds underwater when they hunt.
Some predators thrive after fires, other wilt – and one bird even starts them on purpose.
Europe is getting wilder as more people live in cities, but Naya’s death shows this trend may have limits.
Rewilding is gaining popularity around the world, as a means to restore ecosystems to their ancient state. But just like Vegemite, Australian rewilding projects need to have a unique flavour.
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape’s residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
All three of the methods found to be most effective at protecting livestock do not involve killing carnivores.
Dingoes increase cattle yields, mountain lions reduce car crashes and vultures eat organic waste: like them or not, predators help humans.
If sharks habitats aren’t known, it’s harder to conserve either the animals or those habitats.
Marine mammals are often referred to as sentinels of the ocean and research on whales and dolphins in particular contributes important knowledge about the health of our seas.
Dingoes and wolves can help control destructive smaller predators, new research shows, but only if we encourage them across wide areas.
Carnivorous predators play an important, and until now unknown, role in preserving plant populations in the territories they inhabit.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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