Scientists found the fourth type of transmissible cancer, and the first in a fish: a melanoma whose tumor cells spread ...

Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans ...

A new study revealed contagious cancer in fish, marking the first such case ever documented in freshwater species.

The cancer manifests as raised black lesions on the fish’s skin, along with lumpy tumors. The cause has long eluded ...

Discovery sheds light on how cancer can spread in the wild, raising questions about where the cancer originated, and how it ...

For more than a decade, anglers fishing Lake Memphremagog, which spans the Vermont-Quebec border, have been pulling up brown ...

Scientists have identified the first known transmissible cancer in fish, after discovering that melanoma tumours are ...

Researchers have discovered a contagious cancer in catfish – just the fourth example of tumour cells that spread naturally ...

The cancer poses no known health risk to humans.

You rarely miss a bullhead bite. They swim up and gulp down the worm. You use a long-shanked hook so you can remove it from those gut-hooked horned pout. You never release a gut hooked bullhead, but ...

A mild spring evening, the glow of a Coleman lantern on the water, forked sticks on the bank holding up the rods and anglers waiting for bobbers to dip under the surface to indicate a bite. These are ...

You know it’s spring when the bullhead anglers start lining shorelines of Upstate New York lakes, rivers and streams with their lanterns and folding chairs during the late evening and nighttime. Some ...