The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

New research reveals that despite decades of overfishing, shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic still have relatively high ...

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences–Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together ...

Danni Houchins was found dead in a swamp in Montana. Decades later, a friend of Danni's sister realized she'd been alone with ...

In the century that followed, the snakehead was caught and identified a handful of times, sometimes mistaken for other ...

Officials with the California Department of Fish & Wildlife say that as part of a broader initiative to expand the release ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

The possibility of a brain microbiome has scientists engaged in a discussion about the possible role of bacteria in ...

When most people think of Louisiana’s coastal waters, they picture prized catches like redfish and speckled trout or the shrimp and oysters that have made our state famous. But beneath ...

For years, the death of 15-year-old Danielle "Danni" Houchins had been shrouded in mystery. Montana investigators initially said it could have been a tragic accident, but her family always suspected ...

birds and fish have produced offspring using unisexual reproduction. These have involved a phenomenon called parthenogenesis ...