Body shape had a clear influence on energetic demand. Deep-bodied fish, with their larger surface area, generate more ...

Cold weather can stun non-native iguanas, but native Florida wildlife has various ways to cope. Fish move to deeper, warmer water, while some sharks have internal heating mechanisms. Native reptiles ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a new study. The efficient ...

The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, where they grow and mature before returning to the ...

On Tuesday, a meeting of fishermen who applied last year to become shareholders in the Stornoway Fishermen's Co-operative Ltd. and were denied membership, agreed to form their own co-operative. The ...

Learn how culture, survival, and science created some of history's strangest meals. By modern standards, the diets of some ancient civilizations may seem downright bizarre. Think fermented fish left ...

Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are now being rescued by fishers along India’s western Arabian Sea coast. Since 2001, the nonprofit Wildlife Trust of India ...

Biologists in Kansas have just hauled an extraordinary 100,000 pounds of invasive carp out of the Kansas River, a mass removal effort aimed at giving native fish and mussels a fighting chance. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The soaring Devon Tower has become an Oklahoma City landmark, but now its future is uncertain. Also uncertain is what impact Devon ...

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...