WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest-known bacterium - a vermicelli-shaped organism that was discovered in shallow mangrove swamps in the Caribbean and is big enough to be seen with the naked eye - is ...

ESMERALDAS, Ecuador (dpa) – Wherever shrimps are harvested in numbers along Ecuador’s Pacific coast, the topsy-turvy world of mangrove swamps has all but vanished. Replacing the tenacious plants which ...

A tropical fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago, a new study shows. The ...

The bacterium, roughly the shape and size of an eyelash, was first discovered in 2009 in the mangrove swamps of Guadeloupe, an island in the Lesser Antilles. The bacteria appeared as long translucent ...