Small Fish Can Beat Big Fish
Fish win fights on strength of personality When predicting the outcome of a fight, the big guy doesn’t always win, suggests new research on fish. Scientists at the University of Exeter and Texas...
View ArticleEndangered Cichlid Needs a Mate
Aquarists at ZSL London Zoo are launching an urgent worldwide appeal to find a female mate for the last remaining males of a critically endangered fish species. The Mangarahara cichlid (Ptychochromis...
View ArticleHips Evolved From Fish?
New research has revealed that the evolution of the complex, weight-bearing hips of walking animals from the basic hips of fish was a much simpler process than previously thought. Tetrapods, or...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Underwater Lectures
Unique university lecture held 18 metres underwater Students at the University of Essex have taken their lectures to a whole new level – 18 metres under the sea in remote Indonesia to be precise. The...
View ArticleParasites Lead You Right (or Left)
Fish with parasites attached to their heads have a stronger preference for left or right when facing a T-intersection, giving them an edge when it comes to escaping predators, research from The...
View ArticleNew Corals Discovered in the Pacific
The flora and fauna of the American west coast is generally believed to be well explored and studied. However, a new study and a taxonomic assessment of the octocorals from the north eastern Pacific...
View ArticleNew Way to Camouflage
Fish can hide in the open ocean by manipulating how light reflects off their skin, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The discovery could someday lead to the development of...
View ArticleNew Blenny Discovered
A new species of tiny blenniiform fish has been discovered in the biodiversity rich waters of the southern Caribbean. Haptoclinus dropi is only around 2 cm in length with a beautiful color pattern that...
View ArticleHow Fish Swim
How do fish swim? It is a simple question, but there is no simple answer. Researchers at Northwestern University have revealed some of the mechanical properties that allow fish to perform their complex...
View ArticleStarfish Have True Eyes
A study has shown for the first time that starfish use primitive eyes at the tip of their arms to visually navigate their environment. Research headed by Dr. Anders Garm at the Marine Biological...
View ArticleRelative Surprises
The mighty tuna is more closely related to the dainty seahorse than to a marlin or sailfish. That is one of the surprises from the first comprehensive family tree, or phylogeny, of the “spiny-rayed...
View ArticleClawing to Get the Girls
TORONTO, ON – Some males will go to great lengths to pursue a female and take extreme measures to hold on once they find one that interests them, even if that affection is unrequited. New research from...
View ArticleNew Species of Chalice Coral
The new species Echinophyllia tarae is described from the remote and poorly studied Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Although the new species is common in the lagoon of Gambier Islands, its...
View ArticleDynamic Environments Help Fish
Raising fish in tanks that contain hiding places and other obstacles can make the fish both smarter and improve their chances of survival when they are released into the wild, according to an...
View ArticleStress Treatment for Fish
Chronic stress can lead to depression and anxiety in humans. Scientists working with Herwig Baier, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, recently discovered a very...
View ArticleTiny Fish Make “Eyes” at Their Killer
Small prey fish can grow a bigger ‘eye’ on their rear fins as a way of distracting predators and dramatically boosting their chances of survival, new scientific research has found. Researchers from...
View ArticleWalking Through the Reef
Scientists are taking the public with them to study the world’s coral reefs, thanks to 360 degree panoramas from Google’s underwater street-view format. Results from this pioneering project – which...
View ArticleSiblings Wired Differently
Much as human siblings can have vastly different personalities despite their similar resemblance and genetics, two closely related species of electric fish from the Amazon produce very different...
View ArticleFast-Lived Killies
African annual fish take the adage ‘live fast, die young’ to a whole new level with the discovery that their short lifespan is accompanied by the most rapid sexual maturation of any vertebrate species....
View ArticleThe Ocean as a Cure All
Tackling the risks of infection and other illnesses remains a challenge. Might the solution come from the sea? The life that inhabits the world’s oceans has almost infinite variety. It remains an...
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