Predator

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.​​

Some larger types might opt for a lizard or even a frog, but the great majority of spiders love to eat insects. So much so, that the world's spiders consume somewhere between 400 and 800 million of biomass each year consisting almost entirely of creep crawlies, a new study has shown.

Predator-prey interactions, like those between vipers and rats, play out countless times every day and are over in an instant, but armed with cutting edge video technologies biologists are now able to observe them in mesmerizing new ways. ​​

​​Faced with an incoming predator, most snails don't really have a lot of options other than to retreat into their shells. But scientists have discovered that certain species won't take such provocations lying down, instead swinging their shells to gain the upper hand on an assailant. ​

The latest version of General Atomics' unmanned Predator drone has made a 10-hour endurance improvement over the previous Predator​, The next-generation Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing aircraft flew for over 37 hours non-stop while carrying out a simulated reconnaissance mission over California.

In the latest of a long series of upgrades, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced the maiden flight of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) Long Wing.

At this year’s Farnborough Airshow, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc announced the second successful endurance flight of its Predator B Extended Range (ER) Remote Piloted Aircraft, which flew from June 17 to June 18 as part of a program to improve the Predator’s endurance and capabilities.