In a river of northeastern Brazil, an “armored” creature with “large” eyes paused to rest against a rock. The maze-like ...

NANCHANG -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new fish species in East China's Jiangxi province, according to the local ...

Lake sturgeon, the largest of all Great Lakes fish and as ancient as dinosaurs, once thrived in the river until overfishing ...

The tough part is that fish cannot be compared to other species, she said, like mammals or birds. "That has a lot to do with their anatomy and physiology and the way that their brains and their ...

The UK has banned European vessels from catching the silvery fish species in its North Sea waters to protect marine wildlife that depend on it for food. But the EU is challenging the move ...

"Native fish are released down ... cause significant changes to the river and lake environments that make those environments less suitable for native species and more suitable for them.

Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis, a new species of eel discovered in Taiwan. Photo by Chien-Hsiang Lin and Hsin-Wei Liu from the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica A snake eel with a fleshy ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

While pursuing elusive fish species in each region, it's natural to ask: which of them is the rarest in the game? One may look at the Megalodon and its variants from the Ancient Isle to answer ...

Researchers caught the fish and brought it to the surface to test its DNA and confirmed it was a species new to science, according to the study. The small orange and white fish hides in the holes ...

A fish once extinct in Victoria is ... forms part of a much larger effort to bring the species back into the wild across wetlands and river systems. Last week, the species was released back ...

The closure “affects only a handful of lobstermen for three months but protects right whales from the deadly fishing gear entanglements driving this species towards extinction,” Davenport said.