Global Ocean Out of Balance: Humans Appear To Have Broken a Law of Nature
Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature. Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from…
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Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature. Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from…
The world’s largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), is a plankton-loving giant that can be found alone or in groups in all tropical oceans….
UW Oshkosh vertebrate paleontologist on research team. Two tiny new species that inhabited part of what is now the American south some 100 million years…
The southern coasts of this Chinese island are lined with tropical beaches, while the inner bays are lined with floating fishing villages. Situated in the…
High number of affected animals were pups and juveniles, which were mainly entangled around the neck by fishing line. Fishing line and nets are having…
Coral reefs around the world are under threat because of climate change, overfishing, pollution, and more. Now, researchers reporting in the journal One Earth today (September…
Researchers studied mercury accumulation in the migratory species around the world. Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be…
Seadragons (Phyllopetryx taeniolatus) live off the coast in western and southern Australia. An international team involving evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz…
International team of researchers sequence genome of the enigmatic bowfin fish. The fish species Amia calva goes by many names including bowfin, freshwater dogfish, grinnel,…
River discharge and nutrient loads contribute to size. Recently, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to…
Researchers at Michigan State University are using pheromones, passive barriers, and the sea lampreys’ parasitic suction against them. Sea lampreys are a destructive invasive species…
In order to reverse salmon declines, researchers say, more than 1,200 barriers blocking off streams and habitats need to be removed. For perhaps the first…
University of Virginia School of Engineering researchers uncover the secrets of highly efficient swimming at varying speeds. A robotic fish tail and an elegant math…
I was looking at the seafloor, focused on identifying fish species as I normally did when diving off of the California coast, when suddenly I…
Contrary to what popular media portrays, we actually don’t know much about what sharks eat. Even less is known about how they digest their food,…
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that ocean warming and acidification are shifting temperate coastal reefs to simple turf-dominated ecosystems. At Shikine Island, Japan,…
Scientists prove Turing patterns, usually studied in living organisms and chemical systems, also manifest at the nanoscale in monoatomic bismuth layers. One of the things…
A vast seabird colony on Ascension Island creates a “halo” in which fewer fish live, new research shows. Ascension, a UK Overseas Territory, is home…