By Malaka Rodrigo COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s marine research efforts have benefited in a rare instance where geopolitical unrest ...

A new genome-based study suggests that ancient sharks like frilled and cow sharks could sit outside the family tree that ...

Scientists suspect that the behavior could harm the manta rays, suggesting a complex relationship between remoras and their ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

As national representatives gather at the UN COP15 Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) meeting this week in Brazil, a new global report has been released profiling a dangerously neglected category ...

Some of the longest, most important migrations of species on Earth are happening beneath the surface of the world's rivers and many are rapidly collapsing, according to a major new assessment by the ...

In recent years, a disturbing phenomenon has emerged in wildlife populations worldwide: animals are increasingly being born with plastic already in their bodies. This crisis represents a new frontier ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new fish species come from five continents and a diversity of habitats, including limestone caves, peat swamps, wetlands and rivers. Most are ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

ABSTRACT: Guitarfishes are large demersal elasmobranchs that inhabit shallow coastal and continental shelf habitats worldwide. Exhibiting intermediate morphology between sharks and rays, they serve as ...