Sending scuba divers down to survey corals is time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, scientists have developed other ...

Glyptothorax belongs to a family of catfishes known as the Sisoridae. Sisorids are primarily hillstream catfishes, with many ...

Experience and see some of the Cape Fear region's most unique flora and fauna at this natural jewel in Brunswick County.

The Ramsar Convention is an intergovernmental treaty signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. It encourages the protection and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the rare white orchid as an endangered species after population steeply ...

It’s easy to overlook shrimp when choosing creatures for your tank. They may be small, but they are incredibly beneficial.

The critical population of Chesapeake Bay oysters is on the mend, after numbers decreased due to over harvesting, habitat ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

The parasites are called trematodes. Two species of the flatworms were discovered in California’s freshwater fish, according ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

Outdoor writers are always on the lookout for something of interest to write about. It was my lucky day when Kara Swarthout, ...