also called "super predators," they sit at the top of the food chain, unquestionably the most dominant members of the animal kingdom. But a closer look will reveal that not only are they ...

Most food chains start with a green plant, because plants make their own food by photosynthesis. Predators are found at the top of a food chain. A fox is a predator, and a rabbit is its prey An ...

1991). For example, the predators of a scorpion in a desert ecosystem might be a golden eagle, an owl, a roadrunner, or a fox. The idea to apply the food chains to ecology and to analyze its ...

The rabbits in the food chains below are primary consumers. All primary consumers are herbivores because they only eat plants. Lions are the top predator in their food chain. Changes in food ...

Now we have a simple food chain, with grass plants making food at the bottom, cows as middle predators, and then humans and coyotes as "top predators." While predators usually kill their prey to ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

Over the last few centuries we have shot, trapped, and skinned the predators that formerly thrived at the top of the food chain in the wild. Wild bears, wolves, and big cats are all in retreat ...

big-cat creature with a strong jaw and sharp teeth that occupied the spot at the top of the food chain during the Oligocene Epoch era. Discovered in Fayum, Egypt, the powerful predator would have ...

Predation is a top-down force because the effects of predators start at the top of the food chain and cascade downward to lower trophic levels. A trophic cascade occurs when predators indirectly ...