Killifish manage to endure a variety of environments. The wee freshwater fish survive in isolated desert pools, lakes made by floodwater, even seasonal ponds that are little more than puddles. One ...

Scientists have long been captivated by killifish because they tend to pop up in unexplained places with seemingly no apparent sign of origin. While they typically appear in the fresh and brackish ...

GRASMERE -- A pair of elegant mute swans (Cygnus olor) plied the cold, still waters of Brady’s Pond last week, occasionally submerging their plump, white-feathered bodies, upside down, in search of ...

It will soon be legal to hunt and kill mute swans anywhere in California, after Governor Gavin Newsom signed state ...

Tundra swans and pelicans occasionally mix in the same area, but they are more likely to gather separately since they seek different food sources. Pelicans feed on fish, while the swans search the ...

On the day of the big ice storm last week in Southeast Texas, I spotted a swan on Lake Woodlands about 30 miles north of Houston. Any swan I might spy in these parts I'd normally chalk up to a mute ...

Swans have been rescued from the same spot in a Reading river for the second time in two weeks due to an oil spill. Five swans were rescued and cleaned on Tuesday evening by Maidenhead-based charity ...

These fish turn up in many surprising locations, but this was one place scientists didn’t expect to find them. By Veronique Greenwood Killifish manage to endure a variety of environments. The wee ...