Silje Halvorsen bends down and fills a plastic bottle with water from Gillsvannet lake, a sheltered bathing spot just outside the center of Kristiansand.

Despite widespread human impacts on wildlife diversity worldwide, many fish communities on the seafloor have maintained their ...

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes “that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones,” researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...

This summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to kill thousands of invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. A lawsuit may hold up broader implementation.

In a newly published study, we show that in countries such as Mexico, people are catching, drying and shaping guitarfishes – members of the rhino ray family, one of ... traded species, including ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a seasonal pond, formed during the wet season and already shrinking. Inside swam an “iridescent” creature with a “gem”-like pattern. Something ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

A community of rare fish enthusiasts collects endangered species of freshwater fish from lakes and springs around the world, and keeps them in tanks, hopeful that they might one day be ...

Scientists tested nine fish species from four northern Illinois rivers for contamination with per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances, synthetic chemicals found in numerous industrial and commercial ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...

A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a "blob-headed" fish, and other zoological oddities.