For more than a decade, a team of intrepid researchers have been exploring the river systems of southern Africa, one paddle ...

After dreaming of opening his own pet store for exotic animals for 26 years, Thaddeus Laugisch cashed in his 401(k) to open A ...

A lot of people expect fish to just drift around the tank and mind their business. Then they notice certain species waiting ...

Variations in water quality can impact the development of the visual system of one species of African fish, suggests a new study. Variations in water quality can impact the development of the visual ...

Different beak and jaw shapes are illustrative examples of how animal species have adapted to different food sources. In a ...

Some animal moms and dads don’t just build a nice nest and call it a day. They make their bodies into nurseries, they carry ...

Giant African harvester ants are being smuggled out of East Africa and sold on the black market. Here's why collectors want ...

For decades, fishermen hauled tonnes of 'ngege makuar', a tilapia prized for its taste. Today, the species is nearly extinct, ...

Nature always finds a way, but those ways aren’t necessarily pretty. In fact, in regions with plenty of resource competition, ...

African cichlid fishes represent one of the most striking examples of adaptive radiation, with hundreds of species evolving in the Great Lakes of East Africa and in neighbouring river systems.

The biology of the introduced species Clarias gariepinus in lagoa Encantada (Ilhéus, Bahia State) was studied. Samples were obtained with gillnets between May 2002 and February 2004. All individuals ...

“Magic mushrooms” are consumed recreationally and for medicinal purposes around the world. These fungi gained their fame as “magic” because they produce chemical compounds (called psilocybin and ...