The most extensive global assessment of freshwater animals to date has revealed that a quarter of all freshwater animal ...

Scientists discovered 212 freshwater fish species in 2021, according to a new report by the conservation organization Shoal. At a time when we hear so much about animals going extinct, the report is a ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

Discover some of the freshwater species that together make the St. Lawrence a thriving river of life despite its cold ...

North America's freshwater mussels are both impressively diverse and highly imperiled. Nearly 300 species occur in the United States and Canada, and up to 40 species of the hard-shelled bottom ...

DEDURU OYA, Sri Lanka -- An invasive fish is threatening the livelihood of people in this northwestern village by ...

A freshwater fish species long thought lost for 94 years has been rediscovered in Thailand, says nature and biodiversity ...

Scientists recently described two new-to-science species of freshwater fish from the Philippine island of Palawan: Rhinogobius estrellae and Rhinogobius tandikan. The tiny, blue-spotted fish are ...

Biologists have found two new species of goby fish in Palawan, a Philippine archipelago. The goby fish both belonged to the genus, Rhinogobius. A team of biologists from the Okinawa Institute of ...

Animals that disappeared from some rivers because of pollution, dams and overharvesting are getting a new lease on life that ...