Deep beneath the ocean's surface lurks a rarely seen ... jet-black body adapted for ambush in the dark, this predator is straight out of a horror film. But what exactly makes viper sharks so ...

Believe it or not, when I was little you could go into almost any souvenir shop in Florida and find huge baskets filled with hundreds of dried seahorses for sale next to bleached sand dollars, sea ...

“It’s an honor and a privilege to work with the largest living reptile and largest terrestrial predator on the planet ... poised to ambush anything it can clamp those jaws on—cattle ...

In the 1770s, the Royal Society in London was the premier scientific institution in the world, and the eighteenth century was ...

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and ... change color and camouflage themselves (either to escape predators or to ambush ...

Researchers recently captured the first live footage of a colossal quid in its natural habitat, thousands of feet under the ...

An active hunter, it stalks prey with keen vision, unlike most ambush predators. Its diet consists mainly of other snakes, even venomous ones, showcasing immunity. The cobra's hooded display warns ...

According to the man's father, he was deployed overseas days after the ambush at the university. After the assault, Brainard reported the man to the police as a sexual predator and said she was ...

Here's why the world's largest known predatory fish, the great white shark, is the ultimate apex predator of the ocean. Great white sharks have one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom.

Marine food webs are highly complex. Until now, researchers have been unable to understand exactly how they are affected by ...

The team, peering into mountainside crevices, deep burrows and under leaf litter ... lying in wait to ambush is prey, researchers said. Want to read more? Check out our stories here.