The rescue of a half-frozen beaver in Nebraska highlights the danger semi-aquatic animals face during the winter.

Aquatic animals underpin global food systems, biodiversity, and ecosystem function, yet their health is increasingly threatened by a convergence of environmental, biological and human-driven pressures ...

These species rarely have any natural predator or environmental conditions to limit their growth and survival, which can allow them to establish, spread and out-compete native species for food or ...

Quarantine is an important risk management measure and a key activity that should be considered when developing national strategies for aquatic animal health management. It can also be used ...

Animal survival strategies, how animals escape predators, camouflage in animals, playing dead in the wild, animal defense mechanisms are topics that reveal how closely survival in nature mirrors ...