The fish that changed Lake Victoria forever: How Nile perch triggered one of history’s biggest ecosystem disruptions in the 1950s

For generations, Lake Victoria supported one of the world’s richest freshwater ecosystems. Beneath its surface lived hundreds ...

Your local fishing hole is getting browner, changing which fish species thrive and which ones struggle

The lakes, streams and ponds you’ve visited for years are likely looking more brown than they used to. And people who are ...
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NOAA researchers discover new fish species

Dr. Katherine Bemis of NOAA Fisheries' National Systematics Laboratory and her collaborators recently described a new fish species: Emmelichthys papillatus, or the papillated redbait. Its discovery ...

Ohio’s River Fire Sparked a Law. 71 Fish Species Prove It Worked.

When Ohio's Cuyahoga River literally caught fire in 1969, it forced a reckoning that changed federal law forever. Five ...

31 alien-like marine species discovered off the coast of Brazil

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...
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Extinct Fish Species That Existed Over 420 Million Years Ago Found Alive in the Indian Ocean

The coelacanth species dates back 420 million years and was thought to have gone extinct with dinosaurs A rare fish species believed to have gone extinct with dinosaurs millions of years ago has ...

This Tiny Fish Eats 100 Mosquito Larvae a Day for Free

Mosquitoes ruin summers and spread disease, but something small and overlooked in your local pond has been waging war on them ...