Otter exhibited behavior indicating an illness last week; death may have be related to a disease commonly seen in female river otters ...

There are a number of creatures that call Cumberland County their home. Here are the six most interesting to see in the wild.

Deep within Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness, Atlantic salmon and native brook trout are making a slow but steady comeback.

By studying the Damariscotta and Medomak River estuaries, University of Maine researchers have formally documented shifts in ...

“These results highlight a striking shift in the ecological health of the Indian River Lagoon,” McCoy said. “The significantly lower parasite prevalence — especially among trematodes, isopods and ...

Niweskok, a Wabanaki-led food sovereignty organization, recently bought the farm to aid its work reinvigorating traditional ...

Jill Fedarick, a PhD candidate at the UMaine Department for Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology, was one of the leading forces behind the mural project. This past semester, Fedarick taught an ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

A wild beaver has been filmed on a river in Wales after the species became extinct in Britain about 400 years ago. Naturalist Iolo Williams encountered the wild beaver on the River Dyfi ...

Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An aggressive aquatic nuisance species was found in a northeastern Colorado river. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, rusty crayfish have been located in the West Fork ...

Scientists found a “silvery” river creature in “a remote region” of Brazil and discovered a “potentially rare” new species, a study said. Photo from Bruno Melo CORRECTION: This story ...