mekong river boat

Sold Down the River

Freshwater habitats around the world are becoming less and less hospitable to wildlife

blue hake

Deep Trouble

Adaptations to deepwater living make the fishes of the deep sea particularly vulnerable to overfishing.

jellyfish

The Blob

An Internet guide to the jellyfish population explosion

Fish art

Fish Out of Water

Human ailments as varied as hernias, hiccups, and choking are a legacy of our “fishy” ancestry.

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No Taming the Shrew

Good thing for us it’s small, because this predator gives no quarter to its quarry.

storm

Stormy Weather

An Internet guide to extreme weather

Voracious Evolution

Discoveries of more complete remains of cartilagenous fishes have shed new light on the prehistory of sharks and their relatives.

crab

A Legacy on the Chesapeake Bay

manatee

Wanderlust

An Internet guide to tracking and tagging the animal world

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.