Water hyacinths are free-floating perennial aquatic plants that are native to tropical South America and introduced into the Philippines as an ornamental garden pond plant. Mats of these water ...

Why the complicated description? Because freshwater actually does contain a small amount of salt, which runs off the rocks and soil around it. The plants and animals that inhabit freshwater are ...

we say that it’s an aquatic plant that grows in places like the perimeter of the Laguna de Cagayan,” begins Rhea Matute, executive director of the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP).

Jose Christopher Escano Mendoza Mendoza said the discovery is part of an ongoing project to study the endemic freshwater crabs of the Philippines, led by his team at the museum. “I’ve always ...