Crayfish and amphibians are vanishing as a stealth invader spreads statewide, raising alarms about cascading losses across fragile wetland ecosystems.

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The invasive Asian swamp eel was patient in its ambush. It lay in wait, innocuous for 15 years, an air-breathing environmental timebomb, a brooding mucus covered virus in the freshwater veins of ...