Sawfishes wouldn't be sawfishes if they didn't come equipped with long toothy snouts—their saws. Now, researchers reporting in the March 6 issue of Current Biology, have figured out what they use those saws for, and it ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2012 4.5 / 5 (15) 9 |

Scientists thought that sawfish used their saw to probe the sea bottom for food.  But a Cairns researcher has found that these large (5 meters or more) and endangered fish actually use the saw to locate ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 09, 2011 4.7 / 5 (6) 1

The BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico threatens the existence of a critically endangered sawfish and its relative that recently has been proposed to join it as the only two marine fish in United States waters to receive ...

Biology - Ecology

May 27, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0 |