Now add venom, eggs, and underwater electro-sensing into the mix, and you have the platypus—a creature that tears up the rulebook of biology and throws it in the river. This oddball from ...

A file photo of a swimming platypus. The unique species is classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN. phototrip/Getty Large dams, over 30 feet high, pose a major threat to freshwater species ...

“Bringing together these data are important for understanding potential impacts of plastics to aquatic ecosystems.” While the Mekong River supports the livelihood of more than 60 million ...

Platypus swim in the freshwater ecosystems of Australia's east ... Platypi are very numerous indeed on the Shoalhaven River, and that a gentleman resident there informed me that he could usually ...

These included the free-flowing Ovens River ... Centre for Ecosystem Science and one of the paper’s authors, said, “This is a profound result with significant implications for platypus ...

From tiny trickles of springs downsloping along the hillsides of a remote village meadow to a 215-mile-long stretch of water, ...

An experiment using water from a large wastewater treatment plant has shown that this water continues to affect river diversity ... of pollutants reaching aquatic ecosystems has been significantly ...

As their natural environments dwindle and disappear, freshwater species ... of the country’s river length, representing 86 of 222 (39%) river ecosystem types. On average, the rivers in national ...

“The Tennessee River watershed is arguably one of the most important ecosystems in our hemisphere, and its freshwater mussel population will always be a determining factor in how that ecosystem ...

The data is giving scientists new insight into a fragile ecosystem ... in separate sections of river. Taken together, these findings may help explain why giant freshwater stingrays are not ...