The Amazing Fish Tornado
Researchers working off the coast of Baja California in Mexico have captured stunning video of a “fish tornado” swirling underwater. The imagery is so unusual many viewers have asked if it’s real or...
View ArticleShark Babies Freeze to Avoid Predators
Sharks use highly sensitive electroreceptors to detect the electric fields emitted by potential prey. However, it is not known whether prey animals are able to modulate their own bioelectrical signals...
View ArticleTadpole’s Tail May Hold Secrets for Human Healing
It is generally appreciated that frogs and salamanders have remarkable regenerative capacities, in contrast to mammals, including humans. For example, if a tadpole loses its tail a new one will...
View ArticleFaster Than Tuna?
Tiny coral reef wrasses can swim as fast as some of the swiftest fish in the ocean – but using only half as much energy to do so, Australian scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found. By...
View ArticleAntibiotic-Resistant Fish
By David Stauth NEWPORT, Ore. – The $15 billion ornamental fish industry faces a global problem with antibiotic resistance, a new study concludes, raising concern that treatments for fish diseases may...
View ArticleCorals Benefit from Pink and Purple Sunscreen
New research by the University of Southampton has found a mechanism as to how corals use their pink and purple hues as sunscreen to protect them against harmful sunlight. Many reef corals need light to...
View ArticlePotential Life-Saving Medications Underwater
OHSU researchers, in partnership with scientists from several other institutions, have published two new research papers that signal how the next class of powerful medications may currently reside at...
View ArticleFish Thinking
Scientists have just observed a thought swimming through the brain of a live fish, and that thought concerned getting something good to eat. Fish and other wild animals appear to think a lot about...
View ArticleSame-Sized Swimmers
Have you ever wondered why, and how, shoals of fish are comprised of fish of the same size? According to new research by Ashley Ward, from the University of Sydney in Australia, and Suzanne Currie,...
View ArticleAlgae Eaters are Picky Eaters?
Using underwater video cameras to record fish feeding on South Pacific coral reefs, scientists have found that herbivorous fish can be picky eaters – a trait that could spell trouble for endangered...
View ArticleFluffing Up An Anemone
Setting up home in the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone might seem like a risky option, but anemonefish – popularly known as clownfish – are perfectly content in their unlikely abode. Fending off...
View ArticleNew Species of Fish Described from Turkey
The newly described species Alburnoides manyasensis, belongs the large carp family Cyprinidae that includes freshwater fishes such as he carps, the minnows, and their relatives. This is the largest...
View ArticleNew Method To Assess Coral Health
Mysterious glow of light found to correlate with coral stress prior to bleaching Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also...
View ArticleCitizen Scientists Help Professional Scientists
Citizen science surveys compare well with traditional scientific methods when it comes to monitoring species biodiversity – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Research...
View ArticleRobotic Fish Incorporates Lateral Line Sensing
Researchers writing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A say they have developed a new robotic fish that has lateral line sensing capabilities. The FILOSE team members have spent four years...
View ArticleMonitoring Vanishing Marine Algae With Your Smartphone
Two weeks ago, a group of sailors off the coast of New Zealand leaned over the side of their boat, dropped a contraption into the Pacific Ocean and watched it disappear. Using an app they’d downloaded...
View ArticleGiant California Sea Cucumber Uses Anus as Second Mouth
Most kindergarteners can tell you that an animal eats with its mouth, not its butt. One species of sea cucumber, however, didn’t appear to get the memo: Scientists have discovered that the giant...
View ArticleDancing Sea Lions
Researchers Document Sea Lion’s Synchronized Head Bobbing to ‘Boogie Wonderland’ Newswise — WASHINGTON – Move over dancing bears, Ronan the sea lion really does know how to boogie to the beat. Video...
View ArticleA New Way to Save Endangered Fish
Newcastle Researchers Leapfrog Ahead in World-First University of Newcastle researchers have successfully developed a method to freeze frog embryonic cells in a world-first breakthrough that could slow...
View ArticleWhy Pulse Corals Pulse
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work, which resolves an old scientific mystery,...
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