Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

One of the largest freshwater catfish species in North America, the blue catfish is native to Georgia, but only in the Coosa ...

Asian carps have taken up residence in U.S. waters and can be found in Louisiana. Here's how the invasive species is affecting native fish and plants.

Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

Deep beneath a limestone plateau in western Georgia, a snail smaller than a grain of rice has been living in total darkness — and scientists just identified it for the first time. The species, named ...

As national representatives gather at the UN COP15 Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) meeting this week in Brazil, a new global report has been released profiling a dangerously neglected category ...

Scientists have identified a new spring snail in western Georgia that marks the first formally described member of its group in that region. That discovery extends a lineage once thought to be largely ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new fish species come from five continents and a diversity of habitats, including limestone caves, peat swamps, wetlands and rivers. Most are ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back. By Franz Lidz In Patricia Highsmith’s ...

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of greater Bermuda land snail, Poecilozonites bermudensis, was discovered in an ...

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of Missouri shows the damage may be greater than scientists once thought.

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo Chester Zoo A rare greater Bermuda snail, once believed to be ...