(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members from the U.S. and Canada has found that two species of fish that live in caves in the eastern and central parts of the United States have suffered hearing ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 3 |

It is only 7mm longer than the world's smallest fish, and seems to only appear at night, but the bright blue belly of a tiny Amazonian fish caught the eye of a team of scientists who spotted it was a new ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 28, 2013 not rated yet 1

Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have described anothe ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 27, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 27, 2013 not rated yet 0

On March 1, in response to Alaska losing its appeal of the threatened-species designation for polar bears, state Rep. Eric Feige said the federal government itself was responsible for the deaths of many bears.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 1

It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

(Phys.org) —In a world first study, researchers have developed a way for governments to balance the needs of society and industry with those of endangered wildlife and environments.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

Scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a report in the journal Nature Communications that sought to estimate the number of wildlife killed by c ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first-ever, two-headed bull shark.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (7) 2 |

Researchers at the University of Bergen and Uni Research have found that a certain type of tunicate - ascidiacea - can be used as a renewable source of biofuel and fish food. This is particularly good news ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

The sight of valuable fish being thrown back into the sea, mostly to die, has been a public relations headache for the fishing industry and driven calls for a discard ban by celebrity chefs and environmentalists.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 24, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org) —Catching rides on cargo ships and fishing boats, many invasive species are now covering our shorelines and compromising the existence of our native marine life.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) —A modified version of an eye test used to assess visual acuity in the military has been given to archerfish by scientists to help explain how these remarkable fish are able to accurately spit ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

The two endangered fish species, Squalius aradensis and S. torgalensis, most generally belong to the Cyprinidae, or the carp family. This is the largest fish, and vertebrate family, formed of freshwater ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

A study of mercury contamination in a southeastern Peruvian jungle area ravaged by illegal gold mining found unsafe levels of the toxic metal in 78 percent of adults in the regional capital and in 60 percent of fish sold ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0