A new Nature study using sturgeon backbones as material analogues shows that the first land vertebrates had far stiffer, less ...
Researchers have shown that the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps evolved its aerial vision through developmental expansion of ...
In 1859, a committee of farmers in Billerica, Massachusetts, having grown irked by a dam on the Concord River, hired a ...
A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...
The gear that allows fishers to harvest large quantities at once can also catch unwanted marine life and harm seafloor ecosystems.
Fish, mussel and insect populations took a hit in the back-to-back floods, but they are adapted to handle flooding and can ...
By Rajeev Tyagi Researchers surveyed 40 sites along the East African coastline from Kenya to Mozambique, studying seagrass ...
The pond management industry is consolidating. Private equity is acquiring service companies, rolling them up, and bringing capital to a sector that operated for decades on sweat equity and word of ...
A new species of ancient crocodile relative that lived around 170 million years ago has been discovered by scientists at the University of Portsmouth and Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco.
Children playing near a riverside beauty spot made a surprising discovery this time last year ...
Dr. Jeremy Hollis talks with John Higgins about the two molecular mysteries that he solved on the way to earning his ...