Weedy seadragons are not the only species with highly engaged fathers. Male seahorses, emperor penguins, silverback gorillas, ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is excited to announce a groundbreaking achievement: four male weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has announced that four male weedy seadragons are carrying eggs—a first, according to the Zoo ...

For the first time, the Shedd Aquarium has successfully hatched over a dozen seadragon babies. They'll remain behind the ...

Researchers at UC Davis last week released their annual “State of the Lake” report, detailing several significant changes in Tahoe’s water, including the plunging level of Mysis shrimp ...

Water quality in Flathead Lake and the rise and fall of different fish populations all point to the same culprit: introduction of the mysis shrimp in the 1980s. The significant ecological ...

University of Nevada Reno student intern Katie Fielder displays mysis shrimp in lake water samples at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center in Incline Village, Nev., on Friday, June 30 ...

Zooplankton population took a dive in the 1960s after Mysis shrimp, an invasive species, experienced a population surge as these shrimp are known to prey on zooplankton. According to the report ...

That’s largely because, in late 2021, the lake’s population of Mysis shrimp “unexpectedly crashed,” according to the report from TERC. Those non-native creatures feed on two types of ...

Since the 1960s, the zooplankton populations have decreased due to the growth of its primary predator, the Mysis shrimp. Zooplankton, especially the Daphnia and Bosmina species, have dropped to ...

The addition of mysis shrimp in the 1980s allowed lake trout to continuously outcompete the native bull trout, said Barry Hansen, a fisheries biologist with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai ...