Cambridge Bay intertidal is dominated by a single species of amphipod crustacean, Gammarus setosus, with rare examples of another amphipod, bivalve molluscs, and oligochaetes. Primary producers are ...

After four decades, a First Nation community in Canada is finally able to fully access clean water. St'uxwtéws (Bonaparte First Nation) has been dealing with recurring boil water advisories and water ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing many giraffe species as either endangered or threatened. It’s the first time the long-necked mammals, native to Africa, would receive federal ...

Billions of people rely on freshwater sources for drinking water and power generation. Around the world, 70 percent is used for agriculture. At least 10 percent of animals live exclusively in ...

caudactylus has both male and female sex organs, though researchers never observed the species mating. When it’s time to release eggs, the mollusk floats down to the seafloor, where it anchors ...

A heart-shaped mollusc has evolved tiny windows that work like fibre-optic cables, the first known example in nature. Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a bit like clams that ...

Fresh Water Level on Earth: Why the abrupt drop? The team of researchers identified this abrupt, global decrease in freshwater using observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...

These custom vehicles survey the deep ocean doing everything from measuring water chemistry to looking for undiscovered species. Sightings of the mystery mollusc were rare, with 157 individuals ...

Three-quarters of Australia’s freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians of remarkable creatures such as the ornate rainbowfish, the ancient ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug.