On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky waters swam a scaly blue creature with "large" yellow eyes. Something about ...

Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a ...

Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

In the waters of Papua New Guinea's Tufi region, known for its dramatic volcanic fjords, an unusual fish sat perched on a ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...