For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that runs straight through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge – one of ...

In the century that followed, the snakehead was caught and identified a handful of times, sometimes mistaken for other species, but described and drawn as “olive green, with orange stripe; and the ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

While most fish reproduce by laying eggs, some species are live-bearing, or viviparous, and carry their offspring internally.

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

The future of Alaska’s red king crab fishery is at a turning point. Proposed changes to the fishery’s management in Southeast ...

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...

According to SeaD Consulting COO Erin Williams, “the domestic shrimping industry is hanging on by a thread at this point due ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

The company, founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, announced a $14 million Series A, bringing its total funding to about $32 million.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.