(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...

12-year-old Lauren Arrington brings some positive attention to Florida with her discovery that venomous, predatory lionfish can survive in bodies of water with low salt content, unlike previously ...

The red lionfish, which Arrington studied, and a morphologically indistinguishable species, the common lionfish (P. miles), are endemic to the Indo-Pacific, but both are invading the Caribbean and ...