Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk due to Soviet-era irrigation, sparking crises as Uzbekistan fights desertification ...

Researchers have discovered a deep-sea fish species that's so huge in waters off Shizuoka Prefecture that they named it after the highest rank for sumo wrestlers, the yokozuna. A team of ...

Under-Ice Species at Risk as Arctic Warms Nov. 26, 2024 — 'Specialist' lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk ... eating the same kind of fish. A researcher has been involved ...

Scientists on a submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a 1-foot-long sea creature with 24 “feet” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Several miles below the ...

Meanwhile, other scientists ‒ including Ana Zangroniz, a Florida sea ... about fish to say they can or cannot feel pain. The tough part is that fish cannot be compared to other species, she ...

One side of the Balkhash -- the biggest lake in Central Asia after the Caspian Sea -- has salt water, but on the other it is fresh. In such a strange environment, rare species have abounded.

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The game for phones and tablets — dubbed FathomVerse — populates a virtual ocean with images of marine critters in their deep-sea habitats ... it was a species of bony fish.

Biodiversity is the complex web that sustains all life, including human existence. Yet, this web is unravelling – 1 million of the world’s estimated 8 million species of plants and animals are ...