Lake Nasworthy is the 34th Texas lake to be fully infested with the mollusk that harms water supply infrastructure, boats and ...

Some octopuses can leave the water for brief periods, but why is the octopus purposefully crossing the beach to squeeze into this black hole?

Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

Off the coast of Brazil, a scuba diver captured something remarkable on video: a wrasse fish gripped a mollusk in its mouth, ...

A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

In the green-fringed inlet of Bahía Málaga, tucked along Colombia’s Pacific coast in the department of Valle del Cauca, ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges of ...

“Golden mussels are a greater threat to Tahoe than other aquatic invasive species,” said Dennis Zabaglo, aquatic invasive ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...