DNA has proved 19th century scientists right – the surgeonfish Acanthurus nigros is a separate species and not a synonym of the Blueline surgeonfish, Acanthurus nigroris. Where species of fishes ...

Common name: Powder blue tang (surgeonfish). Scientific name: Acanthurus leucosternon (Ack-ann-thur-uss loo-co-stern-on). Size: To 23cm/9in. Origin/natural habitat: Reef flats of the Indian Ocean from ...

A 19-year-old man in Karachi succumbed to a fatal infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba" on Monday, bringing the city's death toll from this rare ...

MDH Director Kris Ehresmann told reporters in the COVID-19 media call Friday that because it's been so warm in Minnesota since the start of July, swimmers should assume the rare amoeba called ...