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Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage

Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide affecting fish brains: study

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to new research.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 15

Video shows tool use by a fish

The first video of tool use by a fish has been published in the journal Coral Reefs by Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

First ever photo of fish using tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper soon to be published in Coral Reefs reveals the first ever photographs of a fish, in this case the blackspot tuskfish, using tools to acquire their food.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Cutting fishing could buy time for coral reefs

Stopping people fishing around Caribbean coral reefs by designating them legally protected marine reserves could help some of them survive the effects of a changing climate by more than 50 years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Are fish much smarter than we think?

Fish are not renowned for their smarts, but new evidence suggests that they may even be able to use simple tools.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Oceans in distress foreshadow mass extinction

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned Monday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 22

Ocean acidification leaves clownfish deaf to predators

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Industrial Revolution, over half of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels has been absorbed by the ocean, making pH drop faster than any time in the last 650,000 years and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

An enigmatic problem in marine ecology uncovered

A new research paper from an international and interdisciplinary team, published in the journal Ecography, has uncovered the mystery behind the relationship between the duration of the open water period and the geographic covera ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sponge competition may damage corals

Sponges are a group of common and diverse aquatic creatures, very abundant in coral reefs where they are an important part of the ecosystem. But new research has found that if the balance is disturbed, sponges ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation

In an unprecedented collaborative analysis published in the journal PLoS Biology, scientists from 49 nations demonstrated that the ability of reef fish systems to produce goods and services to humanity increases rapidly with t ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oceans where fishes choke

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian marine scientists have expressed disquiet over the continued worldwide spread of large, dead zones in the ocean.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

To punish or not to punish: Lessons from reef fish and saber-tooth blennies

Researchers have experimentally shown that some species of reef fish will enact punishment on the parasitic saber-tooth blennies that stealthily attack them from behind and take a bite, even though their behavior offers no ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Marine Pied Piper leads Nemo astray

The growing amount of human noise pollution in the ocean could lead fish away from good habitat and off to their death, according to new research from a UK-led team working on the Great Barrier Reef.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast