This scientifically suspect metaphor needs to go.PostEverything Please, no more calls to ‘drain the swamp.’ It’s an insult to swamps. This scientifically suspect metaphor needs to go.

Slimes do spawn in mangrove swamps, but any regular swamp biome will do. If you are looking for these huge green blobs of slime in your swamp biome, there may be a few things you will have to do ...

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 ...

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.

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?

Most Kenyan candidates find their way into politics by navigating the corridors of power in one of the country's big established parties. Health activist Umra Omar is hoping to plot out her route ...

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 redefining what is ...

As we collectively recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian, I am reminded of how Florida was, and still is, a precarious society engineered out of a wilderness of water with the swamp… ...

To try to find out why the animals constantly look up, Nilsson and his team placed box jellyfish in a clear, open-top tank, lowered it into a mangrove swamp in Puerto Rico, and monitored the ...

But scientists have found an exception to this general rule in the cat-eyed water snake (Gerarda prevostiana), a small serpent native to mangrove swamps throughout Southeast Asia.

Among big cats, the Bengal tiger, for instance, holds its sole ground in Bangladesh in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. Life in the swamps can still be harsh for some animals.

Health activist Umra Omar is hoping to plot out her route to office via a different route - through the mangrove swaps and inlets of her country's Lamu archipelago.