The Red Sea, circled by desert landscapes, is home to marine life accustomed to the water's bathtub-like temperatures—often reaching 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. But in the past three ...

The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume?

Laysan albatrosses (above) and California sea lions (below) are among the marine predator species tracked by the TOPP program. (Photos by Dan Costa, UC Santa Cruz) Humpback whale. (Photo by Bruce Mate ...

Introduction / I.L. Boyd, S. Wanless, and C.J. Camphuysen -- Effects of fisheries on ecosystems : just another top predator? / A.W. Trites, V. Christensen, and D ...

A new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that Otodus megalodon, the prehistoric giant shark, had a more versatile diet than previously thought, feeding on a ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain ...

A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it sneak up on prey. The team then performed computer analyses to simulate how the flipper might have ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.