The lake sturgeon, with its sleek shape and rows of bony plates on its sides, looks a bit like an armored torpedo. These freshwater giants have greenish-grey coloring and elongated, spade-like ...

While at Sam Rayburn Lake in East Texas with his guide Captain Kirk Kirkland, Art Weston, a state and world record fisherman from Kentucky, instead hooked a massive alligator snapping turtle that ...

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

Researchers from Lingnan University published their findings on Tuesday, noting the city was the last stronghold in the world for the three species of freshwater turtles. The golden coin turtle ...

Arend, K. K. et al. Seasonal and interannual effects of hypoxia on fish habitat quality in central Lake Erie. Freshwater Biology 56, 366-383 (2011). Benndorf, J. Conditions for effective ...