This is one of the best times of year to visit an estuary (the brackish, marshy area where a river meets the sea). The bright green of the newly grown salt marsh grass is interrupted by pools of water ...

Originating in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, just south of the Chesapeake Bay, the Elizabeth River is turbid and brackish, its banks redolent with the nose-wrinkling stench of rotting vegetation ...

The mummichog is the most famous fish you’ve likely never heard of. These little fish live along the east coast of North America in some of the most contaminated waterways on Earth. How does such a ...

Mummichogs are a type of oxygen-breathing fish that flourish in the small pools that form as the tide recedes. But sometimes that pool evaporates or becomes toxic for the fish. So mummichogs have ...

There’s an old joke that if the world was devastated by a nuclear war the only survivors would be cockroaches and Keith Richards. The deliciously named mummichog – it sounds like a beast invented for ...

You likely don't know this, but a species swimming around New Brunswick waters is the only fish that has been to space. Granted, they didn't travel there on their own, but the tiny mummichog managed ...

2016-04-24 11.11.14 Mummichogs.jpg The female mummichog in the foreground is larger but the male behind her is presently in breeding colors that make him a bit more colorful. (Clay Wollney) Mummichogs ...

The little fish is one of the few species that spends its whole life in the Elizabeth River, even in areas thickly contaminated with cancer-causing toxics. Its claim to fame is that most other fish ...

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