Picture: Supplied She said that of the more than 80 native fish species in the Wet Tropics region, about half needed to move between salt and freshwater habitats to ... travel back downstream and ...

Before arriving in North America, the species is believed to have invaded South American rivers through ballast water—the ...

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You've probably seen pufferfish on TV or at your local aquarium, puffing up like a balloon when they're startled. But there's way more to pufferfish than their signature defense mechanism. They're a ...

U.S. Geological Survey Fishery Biologist Vicki Blazer recently published an extensive study on PFAS in fish collected from ...

As a lake researcher, I have in recent years had quite a few people ask me whether jellyfish really do live in lakes. Some ...

Arapaima are the largest freshwater fish in South America—and a keystone species in the Amazon River ecosystem.

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State officials Monday launched a new campaign to prevent the illegal dumping and spread of non-native marine aquarium ...

The weeklong “Don’t Let It Loose” campaign aims to prevent aquarium owners from releasing these invasive species into the ...

Peach blossom jellyfish are extremely rare. The DNR said the last reported sighting of them in Iowa was in Ames in 2019. The last time before that was in Mason City way back in 1999.