There's a type of fish that "hibernates" for months at a time. The lungfish burrows underground to estivate during dry seasons.

Lance Butler, a senior scientist with the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), and his team cultivate up to 50,000 freshwater ...

A farm acreage west of West Branch might be the last place you’d expect to find a 30-plus-pound ripsaw catfish from the ...

It’s that time of year when you start seeing more and more people on the water, doing what they love: Fishing.

"Fishes of the Chicago Region," a guide to fishes of the Chicago region by Francis Veraldi, Stephen Pescitelli and Philip ...

Perhaps one of the biggest and most surprising differences between skates and rays lies in how they give birth. Skates lay ...

A fisherman in New South Wales, Australia, displayed a heroic effort while reeling in a massive Murray cod in late April.

Know exactly what to pack in an emergency fishing tackle box for your car, camping trips, or survival situations. Expert gear tips and experienced advice.

Alligators can live on land and in water, but that doesn't mean they can breathe underwater like fish. But how long can alligators stay underwater? And how long can they hold their breath? Let’s find ...

Sometime in April, a friend alerted me to some odd ball-shaped structures attached to a spruce log in Auke Lake. These are bryozoans, a type of minuscule aquatic animals. They constitute their own ...

The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) is an underrated shark that lives in the shadows of the great white shark and the tiger ...

Fewer gnats, higher biodiversity, and slower decomposition – these are some of the unexpected effects that freshwater pearl ...