May 2, 2016 Golden mussel poses threat to Amazon River The world's mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China.
May 2, 2016 Surprise! Fish lurk in Antarctica's dark underworld In a cold and dark underwater world, where a never-ending rain of rocks keeps the seafloor barren, researchers were startled to find fish, crustaceans and jellyfish investigating a submersible camera after drilling through nearly 2,500 feet of Antarctic ice
May 2, 2016 Giant squid and whale sharks aren't as big as people think When it comes to determining the size of giant squid and other large sea animals, humans have a tendency to exaggerate, a new study suggests.
May 2, 2016 How flying fish took flight? Fossils may tell us An extinct flying fish may shed light on how gliding evolved in such animals, researchers say.
May 2, 2016 Australia hoping herpes will control carp population The Australian government is giving carp herpes.
April 28, 2016 Amazing blind cavefish walks up rocks and waterfalls When the first water-dwelling creature wriggled up onto land about 400 million years ago, it took the first steps down an evolutionary path that would eventually lead to a diverse range of tetrapods — animals with backbones and four limbs — that navigate the world in a number of ways
April 28, 2016 Seven new animal species discovered in Bolivia Seven new animal species discovered in Bolivia
January 5, 2016 Scientists discover shark nursery in New York waters The waters just off the shore of Long Island’s Great South Bay have revealed a nursery where young sand tiger sharks swim up from the south and bask in New York waters each summer.
January 4, 2016 Inside the awful effort to bomb fish out of the water Researchers on a mission to gather information about whales and dolphins in the waters off Tanzania inadvertently discovered that the eco-devastating practice of using explosives to catch fish is alive and well in the African country, National Geographic reports.
