The terror bird, that's its nickname. 50 million years ago, the phorusrhacid, a 2-meter-high carnivore, was at the top of the ...

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 ...

Black-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax ...

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 ...

Tiny predators can sometimes struggle to get the same recognition as their larger cousins who land on top of the food chain. Even though they may be lacking in size, these small predators can deliver ...