When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Most assume that cold water is deadly for fish. The truth is, nature has incredible exceptions. In polar oceans and snowy lakes where temperatures hov.

New research suggests that long-term exposure to very low concentrations of chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, can ...

Populations of Michigan's only rattlesnake, the eastern massasauga, are showing the negative effects of inbreeding in ...

The native brook trout, the official state fish of New York, is making a comeback in Adirondack streams due to the success of the national Acid Rain Program.

Colin Attwood is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town. He has dedicated his ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to near extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s and have not recovered; just the opposite, in fact. It took court action by ...

Steelhead trout draw hundreds of fishermen to Lake Erie tributaries every year, and on Wednesday, a state agency made sure ...

Let’s be real for a second—we’ve all noticed it. Whether it’s your great-grandmother still going strong or the statistics we ...

Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet ...