On islands from Hawaiʻi to the Atlantic, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are disappearing so quickly that ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...

Nevada has no waterfowl consumption advisories despite high mercury levels in Carson River, raising human health concerns, per University of Nevada, Reno study.

Experts warn there's little that can be done to combat the issue, which is drastically impacting a major U.S. food market.

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Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.