How and Why Fish Swim in Schools
SEATTLE – Sept. 12, 2013 – How and why fish swim in schools has long fascinated biologists looking for clues to understand the complexities of social behavior. A new study by a team of researchers at...
View ArticleGuppies Can Help Fight Dengue
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Larvae-eating guppy fish can help combat the spread of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness giving rise to hundreds of thousands of severe cases including 20,000 deaths worldwide...
View ArticleCrowd Sourcing Plankton
Plankton Portal uses crowd-sourcing to classify strange oceanic creatures SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 (MIAMI, FL USA)—Today, an online citizen-science project launches called “Plankton Portal” was created by...
View ArticleNew Species Found!
A new species of the giant fish arapaima has been discovered from the central Amazon in Brazil, raising questions about what other species remain to be discovered and highlighting the potential for...
View ArticleJust another way of Regenerating Tissue?
New research on the reproductive habits of zebrafish offers an explanation as to why some animals’ bodies repair tissues. The research team previously noticed that male zebrafish regenerate their...
View ArticleAeronautics Used Underwater!
BY ROB JORDAN Dan Griffin, Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath photographs coral reefs from below the water using a 360-degree camera. Like undiscovered groves of giant redwoods,...
View ArticleA Fourth Species Identification of Humpback Dolphins May Help Protect All...
Oct. 29, 2013 — A species of humpback dolphin previously unknown to science is swimming in the waters off northern Australia, according to a team of researchers working for the Wildlife Conservation...
View ArticleA New Species Found Hiding Further Inland than Its Cousins
Oct. 29, 2013 — Researchers from Brazil have published data on a new species of fish in the Labrisomidae family on the Brazilian archipelago of Trindade and Martim Vaz in the Atlantic Ocean. It is an...
View ArticleA Female Guppy’s Mr. Right is One of a Kind
Oct. 30, 2013 — When it comes to choosing a mate, female guppies don’t care about who is fairest. All that matters is who is rarest. Florida State University Professor Kimberly A. Hughes in the...
View ArticleUnder the Sea and In the Sky: Whales and Bats Display Similar Hunting Behaviors
Oct. 29, 2013 Sperm whales weigh up to 50 tons, and the smallest bat barely reaches a gram. Nevertheless, the two species share the same success story: They both have developed the ability to use...
View ArticleBirds of a Feather Flock (Or in this Case, Fish of a Scale Swim) Together
Brooklyn, New York— Recent studies from two research teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) demonstrate how underwater robots can be used to understand and influence the...
View ArticleLooks Can Be Deceiving: A New Hammerhead Species
Discovering a new species is, among biologists, akin to hitting a grand slam, and University of South Carolina ichthyologist Joe Quattro led a team that recently cleared the bases. In the journal...
View ArticleWhen It Rains, It Pours on the Ocean Floor
Animals living on the abyssal plains, miles below the ocean surface, don’t usually get much to eat. Their main source of food is “marine snow” — a slow drift of mucus, fecal pellets, and body parts —...
View ArticleArt Imitating Life: A New Submarine May Be Based on Sting Rays
BUFFALO, N.Y. ─ Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be used to design more agile...
View ArticleNo Wonder We Call Some People Sharks: Sharks Show More Genetic Likeness to...
FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – The great white shark, a major apex predator made famous by the movie “Jaws,” is one of the world’s most iconic species capturing an extraordinary amount of public...
View ArticleNew Species of Flasher Wrasse
The new species, a flasher wrasse, was named Parcheilinus rennyae in honor of ichthyologist Renny Hadiaty of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). (Photo courtesy of Conservation International)...
View ArticleAeronautics Used Underwater!
BY ROB JORDAN Dan Griffin, Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath photographs coral reefs from below the water using a 360-degree camera. Like undiscovered groves of giant redwoods,...
View ArticleLife in the Splash Zone
One of the world’s strangest animals – a legless, leaping fish that lives on land – uses camouflage to avoid attacks by predators such as birds, lizards and crabs, new research shows. UNSW researchers,...
View ArticleScientists Say G’Day to a New Species of Giant Clam near Australia!
The yet-to-be-named species belongs to Tridacna, a genus of large saltwater clams. “Giant clams can grow up to 230 kg and are some of the most recognizable animals on coral reefs, coming in a spectrum...
View ArticleNew Species of Marine Algae Discovered
The species that historically was quoted as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico, is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding...
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