Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. Is it a cyclic phenomenon, ...
Ecology
May 6, 2013
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Scientists have found a new way of testing for the genes of particular kinds of fish quickly, cheaply and accurately.
Ecology
Apr 12, 2013
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Researchers from Granada have managed to breed for the first time in captivity a marine animal known as the snakelocks anemone, (Anemonia sulcata), and have also begun breeding a species of sea cucumber (Sticophus regalis), ...
Ecology
Apr 8, 2013
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Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by. Research published in the March 28 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a hard ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2013
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(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.
Ecology
Mar 22, 2013
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Cryptic comments seem to have an ambiguous, obscure or hidden meaning. In biology, cryptic species are outwardly indistinguishable groups whose differences are hidden inside their genes.
Ecology
Mar 12, 2013
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Extensive shell fishing and sewerage discharge in river estuaries could have serious consequences for the rare Icelandic black-tailed godwits that feed there. But it is the males that are more likely to suffer, according ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2013
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Species of seabirds could successfully return to their natural foraging habits following changes to European fisheries policies, scientists have suggested.
Ecology
Mar 8, 2013
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Protection of marine areas from fishing increases density and biomass of fish and invertebrates (such as lobster and scallops) finds a systematic review published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Evidence. ...
Ecology
Feb 27, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A study of around 100 newly collected specimens of early ammonoids (marine invertebrates with distinctive coiled shells) suggests that the number of species they belong to might have been over-estimated due to ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2013
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