Chub is a species of freshwater fish found mainly in running water throughout central and southern mainland Europe. It is not native to Ireland, but it has turned up here. How it got here is unknown.

A STRANGE-LOOKING marine species which provided the inspiration for blockbuster Alien films has been netted off the Irish coast. Global warming may have attracted the rare South American species, the ...

It’s 120 years since a few little silverfish from England were tipped into the Munster Blackwater river. Discarded from a tin of live bait, Rutilus rutilus, the alien, red-eyed roach, would change ...

Hundreds of parasite creatures which were the inspiration for the film Alien have washed up off the Kerry coast.