Rainbow belly pipefish share an uncanny resemblance to seahorses. This is no coincidence. The species are related and similar ...

The Hudson River flows from its headwaters in the Adirondack Mountains in up-state New York down to New York Harbor and into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s named after Henry Hudson, who explored in 1609 for ...

Freshwater life is vanishing at a pace that now rivals, and in some cases exceeds, losses on land and at sea. New global assessments show that roughly a quarter of animals that depend on rivers, lakes ...

Freshwater habitats — including rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs and wetlands — cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, said Catherine Sayer, a zoologist ...

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research. "Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear mighty, ...