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A study of feeding behavior suggests the fish feed differently in front of their partners—a behavioral feature also found in primates.

The Scientist spoke with marine biologist and barnacle researcher John Zardus about why turtle barnacles—previously thought to be immobile—in fact slowly travel. He thinks the answer is food.

Watch one scurry around upside down in a remarkably unusual form of locomotion.

After a nearly 30-year hunt, researchers have shown that a neurotoxin generated by cyanobacteria on invasive plants is responsible for eagle and waterbird deaths from vacuolar myelinopathy.

Monitoring the comings and goings of aquatic life with traces of DNA in water has become an established biomonitoring technique, but scientists are now using environmental DNA to assess terrestrial animals.

This ancient red pigment came from underwater.

Plants use two different strategies to photosynthesize underwater.

The same study also finds there are three species of Electrophorus, rather than one.

Research suggests that the invasive, all-female Procambarus virginalis originated in a German aquarium back in the 1990s.

Modeling gives insight to the critical role of streamflow conditions when assessing the concentrations of endocrine disrupting compounds.  

Researchers use a century of trade records to uncover differences in the resilience of terrestrial and aquatic species.

Researchers discover diverse communities of invertebrates inhabiting the water-filled tracks of elephants in Uganda.

Duke’s Steven Vogel studied how plants and animals adapt to the physical world.

A German naturalist trains a keen eye and a microscope on a tiny crustacean to unlock its secrets.

Most complete skeleton suggests the dinosaurs were semi-aquatic hunters. 

Half a million invasive silver carp are dead in a Kentucky river, and nobody knows why.

Poet Katherine Larson explores the intersection of art and science through the lyrical works "Metamorphosis" and "Crypsis and Mimicry."