Paddlewheel boats were a common way to travel from town to town on the Albemarle Sound in the late 1800s, but they died out at the turn of the century. Now, Edenton has the first paddlewheel boat ...

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The tough part is that fish cannot be compared to other species, she said, like mammals or birds. "That has a lot to do with their anatomy and physiology and the way that their brains and their ...

University of Guam professor of ichthyology Terry Donaldson, Ph.D., has recently co-authored a paper on a fish that communicates ... that no two species make the same exact sound, even though ...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 93-year-old Albemarle County woman is dead after she was hit by a car backing out of a parking space on Sunday. Just before 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, first ...

See All Key Ideas Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish ...

The immature male king eider has its own distinctive look, with an orange bill and white breast. Because of its rarity, many ...

Gavin Newsom of caring more about protecting an endangered fish species than protecting the state's residents from wildfires. The president-elect has long railed against Democrats in California ...

Scientists searching for an extinct fish found a “large”-headed river creature and discovered a new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Zarei, Mathebula and Chakona (2025 ...

Most of the area will see 1” to 4” of snow accumulation with the highest numbers for the Peninsulas and inland Virginia and the lowest numbers near the Albemarle Sound. Some ice accumulation ...

In the northernmost parts of the Great Barrier Reef, which are closest to the equator, the number of different fish species, in particular species of omnivores, plankton feeders and herbivores ...