At most, there are only several hundred Devils Hole pupfish in existence here, feeding on cave algae, small invertebrates, and nutrient-rich pellets cast into the water by the refuge’s resident ...

Expedition leader Andy Eavis accesses a small algae-covered cave opening. He has been studying and exploring the cave systems below Gunung Mulu National Park since 1979. The British team found ...

Freshwater blue-green algae blooms are "not all bad, and they're also pretty to look at," but a Waterloo region researcher is also reminding people that they could be "lethal to humans." ...

From the slime-covered rocks on the windswept beaches in Washington where I grew up, to the enormous strands of bull kelp that float in the Puget Sound, I’ve been fascinated by algae most of my ...

At dusk, they move over hundreds of meters into open water to feed on algae, detritus and other zooplankton. At dawn, they return to the same cave to shelter from predators. Divers sampled ...

After a hot and sunny September, blue-green algae blooms have been observed in Powderhorn and Nokomis lakes in Minneapolis, according to a new alert by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected water is ingested while swimming, for example. And it is known to be ...

Researchers knew that many species of algae produced energy-dense lipids that could be converted to biofuels, and teams around the world began to explore how to supercharge this lipid production.

At dusk, they move over hundreds of meters into open water to feed on algae, detritus and other zooplankton. At dawn, they return to the same cave to shelter from predators. Divers sampled ...

Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there’s an exquisite cave painting of a curious creature. The creature ...

What it tells us about the past: Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not the dry, sandy landscape we know it as today — it was a lush, green oasis. In fact, the sandstone-rich Gilf ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists.