A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Methylmercury is an extremely toxic compound, and unfortunately it's often present in the fish that we eat. Scientists are ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Water pollution has wreaked havoc on these clean-water-loving animals, and dams have deteriorated water quality and separated mussels from the host fish on which their survival depends. Thirty-five ...

Frustrated with which dating app to use? Unable to find "the one?" Spare a thought for some of the animal kingdom, where ...

The banks of the mighty Meghna River, in some areas, are littered with an alarming number of dead fish and other aquatic species. Shocking levels of industrial pollution are to blame for this, experts ...

Gulls and terns studied in known polluted shoreline areas had a host of worse health and reproductive outcomes than those in nonpolluted areas.

MORE: High levels of bacteria in water lead ... of the pollution, fish typically invest their energy in a specific way," he said. "But in presence of the pollution, animals are medicated to ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers ... lakes and wetlands that support half of all fish species and one-third of vertebrates while providing drinking water and climate regulation ...

Grand Traverse Bay's pollution ... in each animal. It makes fish-eating waterbirds a good ecological marker for study, Grasman said. "It doesn't look like an oil-floating-on-the-water kind of ...