Life in the swamps can still be harsh for some animals. Species such as the crab-eating macaque and fishing cat can adapt somewhat readily to a life of swimming and foraging for crustaceans. Meanwhile ...

Folks might want to ring in the new year by getting back to nature and taking a mangrove adventure hike on Saturday at the Anne Kolb Nature Center in Hollywood. Participants will be introduced to ...

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.

No bigger than a fingernail, these seemingly simple jellies have a complex visual system with 24 eyes embedded in their bell-like body. Living in mangrove swamps, the animal uses its vision to ...

Mangrove leaf slugs, which grow up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, use the chloroplasts they ingest to power themselves, enabling them to survive without food for two to three months.

The paper, "Mangrove and Peat Swamp Forests: Refuge Habitats for Primates and Felids," was published in the journal Folia Primatologica. RELATED TOPICS Plants & Animals ...