The Isisford bulldog fish, which surfaced from a 100 million year slumber eight years ago, will make its public debut at the Outer Barcoo Interpretation Centre in Isisford tomorrow (Saturday 20 April).

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 19, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

According to a paper published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2012 (4), Dr. ZHANG Jiangyong, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, descri ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Ocean scientists have long known that juvenile coral reef fishes use coastal seagrass and mangrove habitats as nurseries, later moving as adults onto coral reefs. But the fishes' movements, and ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Toshiyuki Ikoma and Junzo Tanaka have developed technology for producing artificial bones from fish scales and apatite.

Chemistry - Materials Science

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University of British Columbia researchers have identified a gene in balsam fir trees that could facilitate cheaper and more sustainable production of plant-based fixatives and scents used in the fragrance industry and reduce ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Apr 05, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0 |

Scientists have found that only about ten percent of the fall-run Chinook salmon spawning in California's Mokelumne River are naturally produced wild salmon. A massive influx of hatchery-raised fish that return to spawn in ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 08, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An archaeologist from The Australian National University has uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of deep sea fishing for big fish, showing that 42,000 years ago our regional ancestors ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 25, 2011 4.5 / 5 (8) 5 |

There's something fishy going on in West Oakland.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 15, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

Fish communities in the 21st Century live fast and die young. That's the main finding of a recent study by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society who compared fish recently caught in coastal Kenya ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is painting a more complete picture of an extraordinary sea worm that makes its living in the depths of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 14, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

Rearing juvenile salmon at the relatively high temperature of 16 C causes skeletal deformities in the fish. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Physiology investigated both the magnitude and mechanisms of thi ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 05, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-sponsored studies have found that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may play a role in mitigating bone breakdown that occurs during spaceflight and in osteoporosis.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

May 10, 2010 not rated yet 0

Foreign body ingestion is a frequent gastrointestinal emergency. However, long spoon swallowing is a rare event. Most swallowed spoons have been found in the stomach. Previously, there has been no reported case of a long ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Oct 28, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 26, 2009 4.3 / 5 (12) 2

Most of us are aware of the potential health benefits of omega-3 found in fish oil and flax seed. Now researchers are looking at how omega-3 may help laying hens avoid bone damage.

Biology - Other

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