While the rough-skinned newt produces a potent neurotoxin to deter predators, the Crater Lake newt is adapted to being at the top of the lake’s aquatic food chain and lacks ... by preying on the ...

PORTLAND – Crater Lake’s visitor numbers continued to fall in 2024, with the Oregon national park posting its lowest annual count in more than a decade. The remote park, famous for its blue ...

Crater Lake is one of the deepest and clearest lakes on the planet. The newts play a role in keeping the lake clear and clean by eating plankton. Without them, algae growth would increase and ...

According to the study, benthic macroinvertebrates and the benthivorous fish reliance to terrestrial energy (allochthony) was higher compared to pelagic plankton ... in lake food webs can be ...

That could threaten not only the newts, but the crystal blue clarity of Crater Lake itself, as the crayfish also prey on native plankton-consuming invertebrates, increasing the growth of algae in ...

The new Lake Cares food pantry in Lake County. (Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A local food pantry is expanding ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might be facing a new lawsuit over newts in Crater Lake. The Center for Biological Diversity says Fish and Wildlife failed to protect newts under the Endangered ...

A graduate student came across a reddish-brown creature with claws that was tangled up in fishing line at a Washington lake — ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...