Paddlefish are one of the oldest and strangest-looking fish species on the continent. Also know as spoonbills, these ...

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Freshwater environments have been severely affected by human activities, such as the effects of pollution and land use, contamination by agrochemicals, eutrophication and habitat destruction, which ...

Few freshwater fish can match the size of the Mekong giant catfish, which can exceed 10 feet and weigh over 660 pounds. Native to the Mekong River, this gentle giant feeds on plankton rather than ...

"Plankton: The Movie" follows the "SpongeBob SquarePants" character as his computer wife Karen tries to take over the world. It's pretty terrible.

Discover why crappies migrate to deep water in winter. Learn how zooplankton behavior and lake structure help you locate and catch panfish this season.

Abstract Aim We analyzed the relationship between zooplankton species richness and the area of 34 natural and 55 artificial lakes in Brazil (total of 89), with area varying between 0.01 to 2,430 km 2.

A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Freshwater jellyfish are growing in abundance in Canadian lakes and rivers. The reasons are complex but climate change is the primary culprit.

Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso and Stanford University found that the natural community of zooplankton present in freshwater and saltwater do not clean water that is contaminated ...

Scientists were recently surprised to find that the natural community of zooplankton -- tiny, aquatic animals known to graze on bacteria -- present in freshwater and saltwater do not clean water ...