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The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% ...

Life finds a way: Invasive six-inch marble crayfish are able to reproduce by themselves A mutant species of all-female crayfish taking over the world is not the latest science fiction film but a ...

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going ...

The assessment found that crabs, crayfish and shrimps face the highest extinction risk of the groups studied, with 30% under ...