complimented its “perfect parables of adolescent life,” and stated that it is “fine science fiction for youth." Jennifer Mattson claimed it to be “ingenious...
inside of him. When he returns to school, he begins to view his classmates as prey, noting that they look “delicious”. Rex also finds himself hating and being...
addition to preserving spiders' anatomy in very fine detail, pieces of amber show spiders mating, killing prey, producing silk and possibly caring for their...
crocodylian animal, lacking a mouth, which consumes prey by pulverizing its victims into a fine powder and snorting them through a set of large nostrils...
habits of their larvae, which mostly dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey. In North America, the larvae are sometimes referred to as doodlebugs because...
corner of the web, where the spider spends most of its time waiting for prey. The female spider never leaves the web unless forced to. They seem quite...
disadvantage when pursuing prey into their burrows. Small prey typically die instantly from a bite to the back of the neck, while larger prey, such as rabbits,...
purpose – for example a trailed safety line, sticky silk for trapping prey or fine silk for wrapping it. Spiders use different gland types to produce different...
showing that, out of 115 hunting attempts, 20% were successful in procuring prey. A fully-grown golden eagle requires about 230 to 250 g (8.1 to 8.8 oz) of...
small mammals, but this species is an opportunistic predator and is known to prey upon other small vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as...