Names we assign to wildlife possess two equal but opposite powers. They can expedite or even enrich communication, or they ...

Some of my favorite memories involve occasions when family, friends and I took off, hung up the sign, so to speak, and went fishing. I was taught to never release the first fish caught regardless of ...

That’s one big minnow. An angler from Lexington, Virginia, reeled in a 3-pound, 13.9-ounce fallfish — the largest native minnow in the eastern United States — earlier this spring. The fish measured 19 ...

Researchers have discovered a new fish species found nowhere else in the world except a 3- to 4-mile stretch of stream in a remote region of southern Russia. Phoxinus ayukensis is a “super ...

In the cold waters of northwestern Turkey’s lowland rivers and mountain streams, a unique species of minnow caught the attention of researchers. With the help of electrofishing equipment, which ...