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 ...

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 ...

Whether you call them lightning bugs or fireflies (yes, they are the same thing), many of us enjoy watching the insects light ...

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 ...

Synodus autumnus, or the autumn lizardfish (Iroha-eso in Japanese), derives its name from its warm-toned coloration, reminiscent of the time when leaves turn orange, yellow and red in the fall, also ...

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.

These fish reproduce quickly and can survive in poor water quality, leading to the displacement of native fish populations. Round gobies have been present in the Great Lakes since the early 1990s ...

The endangered fish, which are grey-brown and can grow up to 2 inches long, only live for about a year and can reproduce multiple times during their life, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. The ...