Scientists are investigating the health of spiny freshwater crayfish in habitats surrounded by large dams, growing towns, and ...

Citation: The world's second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia's longest river—we're bringing it back (2025, January 26) retrieved 18 February 2025 from https://phys ...

Nick Whiterod works for the Goyder Institute for Water Research, Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Research Centre, which is funded by the national government to deliver research in ...

Then another Murray blackwater event in 2022–23, in NSW and Victoria, forced crayfish out of the water and up the riverbanks. Vision of dying crayfish leaving the water, only to be consumed by ...

Biologists are monitoring an Australian crayfish that surprisingly showed up in Texas, fearing it could threaten local ...

Murray crayfish once thrived in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The species was found everywhere from the headwaters of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in the Australian Alps all the way ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— In response to a legal petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect four freshwater mussels and a ...

Looking through the aquarium pets, the team found several brightly colored and familiar-looking crayfish, the study said. These animals had been some of “the first freshwater crayfish” from ...

The report found freshwater crustaceans - crabs, crayfish and prawns - are at the highest risk of extinction, with 30 per cent of them being threatened. So what does this mean for Australia's ...