The future of freshwater fish species in Australia's tropical rainforest areas, including the Daintree and Mosman Gorge, will increasingly be subject to the vagaries of climatic and other changes.

An international team of scientists recently led a detailed study of eastern rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida splendida, a freshwater species that is popular in the aquarium trade. Eastern ...

TRES RIOS, Brazil (AP) — Sometimes you start something and have no idea where it will lead. So it was with Eduardo Filgueiras, a struggling guitarist whose family worked in an unusual business in Rio ...

Think of the Amazon, and you probably think of jaguars, monkeys, or parrots. But many of the rainforest's secrets can be found hidden in its watery depths, from the fish swimming around its rivers and ...

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"Crocodile!" Célia Castro Pinheiro calls back to her husband as she steps into knee-deep water of the Rio Negro, a tea-colored river that begins in the Colombian mountains and flows into the Amazon ...

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They might not be as popular as jaguars and parrots, but fish hold the key to lots of the Amazon rainforest's secrets. Studying the different kinds of fish living in the region's lakes and rivers ...

A light shines on a pirarucu skin at Nova Kaeru tannery factory at Tres Rios municipality, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Until recently, the skin of the pirarucu, the largest ...

Sometimes you start something and have no idea where it will lead. So it was with Eduardo Filgueiras, a struggling guitarist whose family worked in an unusual business in Rio de Janeiro: They farmed ...