Ever wonder what animals really think when they encounter us? The image we hold of ourselves wandering peacefully through ...

Stone age humans operated as “apex predators”, specialising in hunting large animals for a key period during our evolution spanning around two million years, research by scientists in Israel suggests.

Researchers found 25 pieces of evidence that humans were apex predators They studied 400 papers from various scientific disciplines They found that early humans only added vegetables to their diet ...

Experts studied footage of sharks taken across the Indian and Pacific Oceans and found that their numbers and sizes fell near large cities and fish markets. Sharks are intensively caught and killed by ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

This morning my email inbox was brimming over with news about an essay published in Science magazine by researchers from the University of Victoria (Canada) and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation ...

Predators have roamed the planet for 500 million years. The earliest is thought to be some type of simple marine organism, a flatworm maybe or type of crustacean, perhaps a giant shrimp that feasted ...

Small predators like spiders and ladybirds are the most likely to be lost when natural habitats are converted for human use, research suggests. A global study on the impact of human land use on ...

When humans seize a plot of land and convert it into a town, city or farm, it endangers many animals that live there - with small predators affected the most. Spiders and ladybirds were found to be ...

The analysis of global data details the ruthlessness of our hunting practices and the impacts we have on prey. It shows how humans typically take out adult fish populations at 14 times the rate that ...

Carnivores like pumas, bobcats and skunks are so afraid of humans they hunt drastically less when they sense their presence, potentially harming the species’ long-term survival, according to a new ...