One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

Photos into the newsroom show shrimp in Joshua Tree National Park. Park rangers shared photos of shrimp in the Barker Dam Reservoir inside Joshua Tree National Park. What you're looking at is a ...

After operating as a privately owned oil field for more than 80 years, Banning Ranch in Orange County has been purchased by conservationists, and is going to be rehabilitated and preserved. That was ...

You won’t find fairy shrimp on the Red Lobster menu, however, you will find them swimming at Joshua Tree National Park. Last month, Tropical Storm Hilary dropped 1 to 4 inches of rain on different ...

A tiny 22-legged crustacean that swims upside down, flapping its legs front to back, has become the star at Joshua Tree National Park following the heavy rains that came with Tropical Storm Hilary.

Three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” are stirring in the Nevada desert after flooding upended the Burning Man festival. Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in ...

Thanks to heavy rains brought to California by Tropical Storm Hilary, 22-legged crustaceans are swimming about at Joshua Tree National Park. National Park Service Thanks to heavy rains brought to ...

In western India, a shallow roadside basalt rock pond serves all sorts of passersby. Cattle use it for drinking and bathing; aquatic beetles, plants and tadpoles live below the surface; and it is a ...