Predator

Name a type of organic matter and chances are some type of organism has evolved to eat it. Plants, meat, algae, insects and bacteria are all consumed by different creatures, but now scientists have discovered something new on the menu – viruses.

Scientists have discovered a completely new branch on the tree of life. This “supergroup” contains an incredibly diverse range of predatory microbes that are extremely different genetically from any other form of life on Earth.

Archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of an enormous 240 million year old reptile, which has the contents of its last meal – an almost equally massive sea creature – still visible in its stomach.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc has announced that one of its MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has completed its first ferry flight. On January 8, 2020, the craft flew from Palmdale, California, to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

Acer has reconfigured the Thronos, dropped the price substantially, ditched the motorized gizmos, added "Air" to the name, and included a massager.

​Among a bevy of announcements from Acer's IFA press event, the largest, in literal terms alone, has to be its beastly Thronos gaming chair – nay, cockpit. Of course there was no hesitation in going hands on…

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc's (GA-ASI) SkyGuardian drone set out today on its historic transatlantic flight. At 12:48 pm CDT, the MQ-9B MALE RPA took off from Grand Forks, North Dakota and is on its way to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) is sending an MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone on the first-ever transatlantic flight of a Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) next month.

Nowadays lions, leopards and cheetahs may be the dominant carnivores of Lesotho, Africa, but they all pale in comparison to what might have been the largest predator to ever stalk the continent.

​The latest variant to join General Atomics' Predator family of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has outlasted its siblings in the air. The new MQ-9B SkyGuardian recently stayed aloft for 48.2 hours, beating the previous endurance record for a Predator-series aircraft by just over two hours.

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a string of snakes hanging from a cave snatching bats out of midair. But this exact behavior has been spotted in Cuba, and is remarkable not so much because of the method of the hunt but of the coordination of the hunters.

Masrasector nananubis might have been no bigger than a skunk, but that didn't prevent it from becoming top dog after the dinosaurs died out. Named after the Egyptian god of mummification​, its rise and fall is part of an epic evolutionary tale of climate change and continental drift.​​