A rare Oriental darter is sighted in Hainan province on July 11. [Photo by Xue Meili/For] The Oriental darter is a sleek, ...

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Have you ever seen a creature that seems to smile at you from behind the glass, with feathery gills waving like carnival ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

No fear, early sleepers, for daytime bullfrogging can be just as productive as its midnight counterpart of flashlights and ...

Streams that wind through Western Washington’s forests are essential habitat for frogs, bugs, and lots of other tiny critters ...

With pale skin, a slinky body, and puny limbs, the olm resembles a ghostly, aquatic serpent that spends its life in dark, ...

To put it simply, yes, they are venomous. But are they extremely dangerous? Not quite. Water moccasins are compelling ...

The lights will go out on a bridge over the Mississippi River in Winona, Minnesota, for the next few weeks to squelch the ...

North Florida Land Trust has removed a submerged fence from Smith Lake Preserve in Clay County. The project aimed to improve ...

Ecology has a role in protecting water quality at forestry sites, and our analysis of the draft Forest Practices Board rule ...