The creek looks harmless, but once the traps hit bottom, the water gives up creatures that feel out of place — jags, cichlids, armored catfish, and then two enormous iridescent sharks. Their bodies ...

This trap was meant for small fish, but what we hauled up looked more like a tiny freshwater shark. The moment it surfaces, the reactions go from confused to amazed as the rare catch starts thrashing.

Nat Geo Explorer Zeb Hogan has spent decades asking the question. “I thought there would be a simple answer,” he now concedes, after recording a 661-pound stingray. “I was wrong.” Scientists tag and ...

A freshwater fish species long thought lost for 94 years has been rediscovered in Thailand, says nature and biodiversity ...

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Researchers from the university’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology discovered that indigenous aquaculture systems ...

A woman selling fish in a market in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. From Ancient Egypt to the Zhou Dynasty to first century Palestine, fish have symbolized wealth and abundance, demonstrating the ancient ...

They’re tiny, they’re widespread, and they’re inside the fish you might be grilling this weekend. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is ...

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This spring offers a critical window to see if man-made "bungalows" installed in rivers throughout the ACT can help a struggling fish species. If they work — as some ecologists are convinced they will ...