Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

A striking, silver-colored fish commonly kept as an aquarium pet has been hiding in plain sight in the Philippines’ largest ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

An invasive species of fish that can live out of water has been found lurking in Canada, experts warn. The Department of ...

Among the many spectacular reef fishes swimming the Indo-Pacific corals, from Africa to Oceania, is the big-eyed, bulge-faced ...

In January, biologists in the Los Angeles area rushed to rescue tiny northern tidewater gobies ( Eucyclogobius newberryi) in Malibu’s Topanga Canyon Lagoon. The devastating Palisades fire had ...

They look like devils and hence are called pez diablo in Spanish, but these demonic objects are dried and mutilated versions ...

Braz J Med Biol Res, March 2006, Volume 39 (3) 405-410 Losses of immunoreactive parvalbumin amacrine and immunoreactive a protein kinase C bipolar cells caused by methylmercury chloride intoxication ...

When the fish saw their reflections—and the spots on their skin—they appeared to attempt to scrape it off on surrounding surfaces, probably identifying the mark as a parasite.

Miller leads a 17-year survey at the Wells Reserve, a NOAA-protected estuary in Wells, Maine, netting and identifying fish larvae off the local pier. Maine had a heat wave in 2012 that shattered ...

The Great Lakes, North America’s vast freshwater ecosystem spanning over 94,000 square miles, have historically been home to native species adapted to cooler temperatures and seasonal changes. Yet in ...

A sea turtle nest marked with yellow stakes and pink flagging tape on Turtle Beach, Siesta Key, Florida Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) has documented sea ...