Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s ...

This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.

Researchers in China have named a newly discovered fish species after the Studio Ghibli character San from "Princess Mononoke ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Not all types of flu are the same. Some types of flu can make you very ill, while others cause milder symptoms. Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Climate change, invasive species and habitat loss are all threats. A critically endangered freshwater fish that lives in a complex of springs connected to the Great Artesian Basin in South ...

The fishermen, previously connoisseurs of regional fish varieties, are represented here as victims of a terrible sensory forgetting, a cultural amputation, as it were, says Gupta. They cannot now even ...

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 ...

The costly varieties include those made from lakkha and rupchanda fish. High-quality rupchanda shutki can range from Tk 3,000 to Tk 4,000 per kilogram, while lakkha shutki is priced between Tk ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...