Word: preys
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...Academy of Natural Sciences, such an appendage would have been worse than useless. But it would have been more than adequate for propping the animal's head above the water so that it could survey its surroundings or for anchoring it underwater as it waited to ambush its prey. The advantage of being able to gulp air through lungs as well as gills would likewise have been immediate, given that the fishapod made its home in warm, shallow waters that were frequently rendered inhospitable by decaying vegetation...
...That means food isn't always there even when the Inuit can travel. Wildlife may well be less adaptable to extreme changes than humans are. When polar bears can't find prey, there are few alternatives; the bears burn their own fat, releasing into their systems the contaminants stored there--pesticides and other industrial chemicals that accumulate in cool Arctic waters and build up in the food chain. Other animals are also in trouble. In February, in what should have been midwinter in the far north, Nunavut's capital city, Iqaluit, was a balmy 5*noneC and rainy. When...
What's the most dangerous notion middle-aged people fall prey...
Human beings have spent 99 percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed...
...years ago. A child wanders alone, a little way off from a group. Intersecting their paths is a one-legged man whose confident pace gives no clue as to how he propelled himself, and four tall men running fast, their heels skidding as they sped - were they hunters or prey...