The bones of an unlucky ancient sea cow has revealed more about the food chain during the Miocene epoch, around 23 million to 11.6 million years ago. Skeleton analysis indicates the creature was ...

A food chain shows how plants and animals get their energy. The arrow means 'is eaten by' and shows the movement of energy in the food chain. The initial source of energy for all food chains is ...

What is a food chain? All living things including humans, animals and plants need energy to live. But, where do they get their energy from? The answer is easy - all living things get their energy ...

And what's their role in maintaining healthy ecosystems.

Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...

Actually, it's more like eat and be eaten for most organisms. While plants and some bacteria can make their own food, other organisms must eat living things to survive. This makes them predators.

Food chains and food webs are important ecological concepts that describe the relationships between species in an ecosystem and how energy is transferred between them. The two terms are used ...