Fish living in warm and arid climates are used to adversity. High temperatures and droughts can routinely cause the streams they call home to stop flowing or dry out altogether. Yet even fish adapted ...

From field sites in Vietnam and the coast of West Africa to her laboratory in Washington, D.C., Kate Bemis applies her knowledge of fish diversity to support sustainable fisheries Naomi Greenberg Kate ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...

You've probably heard that it's getting hotter outside. Last year was the hottest on record globally, topping a record that was set the year before. But some of the places we go for refuge from the ...

Fishes began a century-long process of changing how people interact with wildlife. Though many beginnings interweave to tell the whole story, the best place to start is with that word “fishes.” Some ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have discovered new cyprinid fish fossils from the early and middle Miocene of the Lunpola Basin in Northwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These findings indicate that ...

In the aquatic environment, suction feeding is far more common than biting as a way to capture prey. A new study shows that the evolution of biting behavior in eels led to a remarkable diversification ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 91,630 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the critically imperiled San Francisco Bay ...