The azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) spends its larval stages underwater, before climbing an emergent plant and breaking out of its larval skin as an adult, leaving an empty exuvia. Like many ...

With tiny leaf-like fronds, and the smallest flower and fruit in the plant world, duckweed may sound like delicate botanic specimen. However, this bright green denizen of ponds across Asia teams ...

A chance to explore some of the changes that happen at a pond in Spring, and the movements of animals and plants children might see there. We begin with tiny, squiggly underwater microscopic ...

In the spring-fed waters of three basin-shaped ponds in south-east South Australia, the water is so clear that plants can ...

Photo by Liu, Lyu, Du, Chen (2025) In a deep pond rich with underwater plants in south-central China swam a fish believed to have existed nowhere else in the world. The scaled fish with barb-like ...