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This feeding mode involves rapid movement to overcome prey escape capabilities and only functions only at short range.
Read moreAn international team research has identified a previously unknown electric fish genus in a remote region of South America.
Read moreA species of African killifish has been discovered that reaches sexual maturity faster than any other vertebrate animal. Residing in temporary puddles, Nothobranchius kadleci starts to reproduce just 17 days after hatching.
Read moreA genetically modified strain of Salmon which have been engineered with extra genes to make them grow more quickly, pass on this trait to the hybrid offspring, researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, has found.
Read moreAlthough they may seem like a strange comparator to humans, zebrafish share a majority of the same genes with humans, making them an important model for understanding how genes work in health and disease.
Read moreThe coelacanth is closely related to the fish lineage that started to move toward a major evolutionary transformation.
Read moreThe researchers found that Stingray City's stingrays show distinctly different patterns of activity than their wild counterparts, who don't enjoy daily feedings or close human contact.
Read moreUS researchers measured and compared the net dark oxygen uptake of fish–anemone pairs when partners were separate from each other, together as a unit, and together as a unit but separated by a mesh screen that prevented physical contact.
Read moreNow, additional findings lends further credence to the notion that fish do indeed possess emotions and harbour thought processes.
Read moreAfter a detailed review of import records for marine tropical fish entering the United States over a year's span, scientists found 1,802 species imported, or 22 percent greater biodiversity than previously estimated. More than 11 million fish were imported from 40 countries, which was less than previously reported, as many freshwater fish and marine invertebrates were being mistakenly counted as marine fish.
Read moreIn a study that covered 17 separate locations round Lizard Island in far North Queensland, researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University videoed the behaviour of large reef fish, allowing them to ide
Read more"Actually having good followers helps leaders get on with their tasks," said Andrea Manica, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who led the study recently published in the journal Current Biology.
Read moreFederal authorities concede the industry in the territories could lose more than $1 million a year. But creating a healthy reef ecosystem is a priority, Roy Crabtree, southeast regional administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said this week.
The U.S. Coast Guard is expected to enforce the annual catch limits with help from local authorities. Both commercial and recreational fishermen are supposed to report their catches, but some fishermen say enforcement will be hard.
Read moreIn research aimed at understanding the process of fish population decline when coral reefs sustain major damage, PhD student James Kerry and Professor David Bellwood have found that big fish show a marked preference for sheltering under large, fla
Read moreDead zones are areas in the ocean where oxygen levels are so low that most fish cannot survive over the long term.
Blue marlins and many other billfish are high-energy fish that need large amounts of dissolved oxygen. By comparing the movement of the blue marlins and the location of low-oxygen areas, scientists have shown that blue marlins venture deeper when dissolved oxygen levels are higher, and remain in shallower surface waters when low dissolved oxygen areas encroach on their habitat from below.
Read moreIn the journal Marine Biology, lead author Dr. Evan D’Alessandro and University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science colleagues Drs.
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