they rescued crays and held them safely in aquaculture facilities until they could be released back into the wild. Many of these crayfish were later returned to the river where they came from.

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

In response to a legal petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect four freshwater mussels and a crayfish under ...

Crayfish are also known as crawdads, crawfish, mudbugs and freshwater lobsters. Crayfish keep streams cleaner ... activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

White-clawed crayfish are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list of threatened species that are considered endangered. The UK's only native freshwater crayfish ...

WELLINGTON: Giant freshwater crayfish, up to 25cm long, once roamed New Zealand's ancient lakes around 20 million years ago, three times the size of today's native species, a new study has revealed.

Australian freshwater blueclaw crayfish Bleckdraco CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today’s species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...