News tagged with swim bladder

Fish talk to each other, researcher finds

The undersea world isn't as quiet as we thought, according to a New Zealand researcher who found fish can "talk" to each other.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aggressive piranhas bark to say buzz off

Thanks to Hollywood, piranhas have a bad reputation and it would be a brave scientist that chose to plunge their hand into a tank of them. But that didn't deter Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Listening to the song of the toadfish (w/Audio)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Roger Bland is listening in on one of the noisier creatures in San Francisco Bay, using physics to analyze the mating song of the toadfish. While fish don't have vocal chords, they ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Examining evolution from a cellular perspective

The evolutionary processes of unicellular and multicellular organisms are continually under debate. John Torday, Ph.D., a lead investigator at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), has recently co-authored ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0