prey
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"So the octopus puts its dark-coloured web over the prey item, keeping itself safe."
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The team believes giant prey animals may have triggered an "evolutionary arms race" in which predators evolved stronger jaws and skulls to overpower increasingly massive herbivores.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
And then, of course, spiders are venomous, toting enough toxin to immobilize and liquify prey and, in a few cases, cause lesions, necrosis or death in humans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
A people without history, without context, who lack the means to understand their predicament or the tools to resist it, are easy prey for authoritarians.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
But so far, at least, the prey had eluded the hunter.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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