A four-year-long project has rid Banff's Rainbow Lake of invasive rainbow trout, and reintroduced native cutthroat trout back into the body of water.

Destin, FL 2015

Four St. Mary’s County watermen are scheduled to appear in district court on July 31 on charges they illegally harvested thousands of pounds of undersized croaker and three protected species in the waters of Town Creek, a tributary of the Patuxent Ri ...

Scientists find the first ever four-legged snake, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs and probably dug burrows.

Scientists from the University of Freiburg have solved the molecular mechanism of a fish toxin that could be used in the future as a medication to treat cancer. The scientists have now published their research in the journal Nature Communications.

Credible reports of snakehead sightings and results from a Maryland Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service survey indicate that the non-native snakehead species has spread into the C&O Canal and thereby the Upper Pot ...

Chile's salmon farmers are using record levels of antibiotics to treat a virulent and pervasive bacteria, driving away some U.S. retailers including Costco Wholesale Corp, which is turning to

A 2012-2013 investigation by the Food and Drug Administration tested fish at the point of wholesale and found that 15 percent of those tested were mislabeled. Federal officials are hoping to crack down on this fishy labeling. In fact, last year the W ...

Baby Weedy Sea Dragons!

In interviews, ill people answered questions about foods eaten and other exposures in the week before they became ill. Of 46 ill people for whom information is known, 43 (93%) reported consuming sushi in the week before they became ill.

The United States and four other nations that border the Arctic Ocean pledged on Thursday to prohibit commercial fishing in the international waters of the Arctic until more scientific research could be done on how warming seas and melting ice are af ...

This unusual fish's bony fins can extend up to 1m to help them stand. Video in snap.

This clip shows the general behaviour of the Pacific leaping blenny as it goes about it's day on the rocky foreshores of Guam.

from Tom Teller

Study is first to experimentally show that environment influences the social transmission of fear

Drs. Carole Baldwin and Ross Robertson from the Smithsonian Institution discovered a new small goby fish that differs from its relatives not only in its size and colors, but also in the depth of its habitat (70-80 m) in the southern Caribbean. Their ...

The skull of a giant predator fish called cooyoo reveals its formidable teeth and massive jaw

Breakfast at the Graham Center at Florida International University’s main campus was interrupted when the aquarium in the center’s food court burst Thursday morning.