Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about how Triceratops lived and why it went extinct. Triceratops’ enormous ...

When restoring or replanting vegetation in degraded ecosystems, it may be tempting to let nature run its course, and allow ...

It also implies the transfer of food energy from its source in plants through herbivores to carnivores (Krebs 2009). Normally, food webs consist of a number of food chains meshed together.

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old ...

Some animals called carnivores only eat meat. Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals need to eat so they can stay alive because food is the main source of energy for all ...

Though we sadly weren’t in attendance (our invite seems to have gotten lost in the mail 😭), we were luckily able to vicariously live out the night thanks to a buncha snaps the musician was in.

Pesticides aren't always necessary. Researchers at the University of Zurich have conducted a comprehensive field study showing that damage from herbivores can be reduced by using biodiversity ...

Some animals called carnivores only eat meat. Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals that eat meat and plants are called ‘omnivores’. Watch the video to learn more ...