News tagged with fish bones
How to make high-end perfumes without whale barf
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 ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Hatchery fish mask the decline of wild salmon populations
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 ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Gone fishing? We have for 42,000 years
(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 ...
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Nov 25, 2011 |
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Fish bones used to decontaminate soil in a lead-poisoned neighborhood
There's something fishy going on in West Oakland.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Modern fish communities live fast and die young
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 ...
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Deep-sea worms eat found to eat fish bones
(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 ...
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Salmon in hot water
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 ...
Jul 05, 2010 |
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NASA Studies Find Omega-3 May Help Reduce Bone Loss
(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 |
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Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum
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 |
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Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone
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 |
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Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?
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.
Jul 13, 2009 |
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High carbon dioxide levels cause abnormally large fish ear bones
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapod
New evidence gleaned from CT scans of fossils locked inside rocks may flip the order in which two kinds of four-limbed animals with backbones were known to have moved from fish to landlubber.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Dracula minnow has teeth, almost
A new species of tiny fish with jaw structures that look like huge teeth has been identified, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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