Most fish need oxygen-rich water to survive. But there are a few remarkable species that have figured out how to live when that oxygen runs low– or disappears altogether. From ponds that go still and ...

Rescuers are racing against the clock to find a missing submersible that was set to tour the Titanic wreckage off the coast of Newfoundland. The stakes are life and death for the five people on board ...

Around one billion people are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize the human gut through dirty water. Such infections are common in less developed countries ...

Naked mole rats may not be the most attractive creatures to look at. But they're very interesting for researchers to study. They're the only cold-blooded mammal, explains Thomas Park — a professor in ...

Watching a fish glide through water gives the impression that it moves in a world foreign to ours. But if we need air to live, how do these animals manage to breathe beneath the surface, where our ...

Scientists searching the floor of the Mediterranean say they have found the first multi-cellular creatures that live their lives entirely without oxygen. A group of Italian and Danish researchers ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research suggests there's less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa than thought — and that could affect what if any life might be lurking in the moon’s ...

This article discusses oxygen saturation targets for children on ventilators in intensive care. Research compared outcomes among children who received a high level of oxygen (more than 94% of the ...

Several remarkable fish species have adapted to survive in oxygen-poor environments. These fish employ diverse strategies, including breathing air with lungs or specialized organs, absorbing oxygen ...