The native trout had been wiped out by overfishing, pollution, and attacks by another invasive species, blood-sucking sea lamprey. Through the 1980s, and to this day, alewife have caused devastating ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a snake. A newly discovered species of a toothy snake in the Western Himalayas has been named in the actor’s honor, according to an “ongoing study” published in the ...

Vibrio are a group of marine bacteria that thrive in warm, brackish waters—where fresh water mixes with seawater—like the estuaries on the coast of Florida. While most species are harmless to humans, ...

Our ancient evolutionary cousins on Flores represent a unique lineage who lived during a time multiple human species were spreading to different parts of our planet, and this enigmatic relative of ...

But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fossil of an ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this ...

It's along West Lake Parker Drive near Bella Vista Street in Lakeland. An increase in the number of Vibrio vulnificus cases this year was to be expected as the infection can be contracted through ...

Bright red blood in your stool is a sign of bleeding in the lower digestive tract. It is most likely caused by a condition like hemorrhoids or diverticular disease. However, bloody stool can be a ...

Cases of flesh-eating bacteria are on the rise after recent natural disasters. Vibrio Vulnificus occurs naturally in warm coastal waters. Its concentrations can rise with heavy rain and flooding.

Named ‘Anguiculus dicaprioi’ or DiCaprio’s Himalayan snake, the new species was discovered by the team of researchers from India, Germany and United Kingdom in 2020 A new snake species ...