Science news articles about 'apex predators'

... of millions of dollars. "The economic impacts of mesopredators should be expected to exceed those of apex predators in any scenario in which mesopredators contribute to the same or to new conflict ...

... other carnivorous mammals to fill the niche on the islands where they live. The lizards are apex predators and dominate the ecosystems in which they live. Although Komodo dragons eat carrion, they ...

... and co-principal investigator of the study. "Sharks are apex predators, so studies of shark hunting ... in False Bay. They were able to observe natural predation by great white sharks because attacks ...

... highly migratory, and we still have a lot to learn about them," said Nancy Kohler, who heads the Apex Predators Program at the Narragansett Lab and has been on every survey. "We do not know how large ...