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Skulking gingerly through the forests of Quebec, his heart racing as he scrambles for scarce resources while trying to avoid nearby predators — it’s all in a day’s work for Université Laval ecologist ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

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Each year on the Serengeti, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest calves are born within weeks. Here's how the young predators ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...