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 ...

The Kansas River is cleaner today than half a century ago, but pollution and trash remain problems. Kayakers and others who ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife found a single zebra mussel veliger in the Grand River Park near New Castle. This is the first ...

The new minnow species, Phoxinus kottelati, is able to change its color pattern during spawning, according to a study. Photo ...

The “super narrow-ranged” species was discovered in the Northwestern Caucasus region in a stream that nearly dries out ...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is again shortening the trout season amid rising costs. Fishing changes frustrated state lawmakers.

Biologists are investigating the possibility of reintroducing shallow-water ciscoes to Lake Erie from a surviving population in northeastern Pa.

An American alligator at the Kansas City Zoo. The species was taken off the endangered species list in 1987 after populations successfully rebounded from the brink of extinction to over a million.

The rod company — not the state of Kansas — offers a prize of up to $20,000 for eligible customers who break a new state record, by weight, for certain species. While blue catfish are eligible for ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Some fish are harder to catch than others in Kansas but a rare few species are considered truly unusual to come across by the public or anglers casting lines at their favorite ...