Can you imagine seas and oceans completely bereft of colourful fish? The possibility may not be all that far-fetched, thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By the end of the century, CO2 concentrations in seas will interfere with fish's ability to hear, smell, turn and evade predators, sa...
Visitors to this city’s burial ground learn more from the dead, particularly about the whale shark and other endangered sea creatures.
The 12-year-old “fish cemetery” of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has become a field school all year round, even to the curious, according to ...
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A new Louisiana State University study shows the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fish living in Louisiana marshes and reveals a problem that could affect the future of the seafood industry.
The study was conducted by associate professors of biological scien...
Oceana turned its press conference yesterday at the National Press Club into a pop quiz: Organizers laid out skinless fillets of halibut next to skinless fillets of fluke, both without labels, and then asked the gathered audience to identify each fish by sight. Oceana then repeated the test ...
As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life.
by carl zimmer
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is overshadowing another catastrophe that’s also un...
TOKYO -- Fears about contaminated seafood spread Wednesday despite reassurances that radiation in the waters off Japan's troubled nuclear plant poses no health risk.
Although experts say radioactive particles are unlikely to build up significantly in fish, the seafood concerns in the country that g...
Many people eat food without thinking much about it, aside from its taste and its nutritional/caloric value. But there are also people who care about more than that, such as where their food came from and how the animal/creature was captured and killed. Unfortunately, that information isn’t generall...
I am completely fascinated by this recent news story on CNN.com. On September 10, 2010, an international team of marine biologists discovered a new, never-before-seen species of fish living deep in the Pacific Ocean. The fish, a pure white species of snailfish, was discovered living 4 and ½ miles be...
Two new fish species — with pancake-flat bodies, wiggling lures on their faces, and elbowed fins for “walking” on the seafloor — have been discovered in the path of spewing Gulf of Mexico oil.
Picture Courtesy of AMNH
One of these pancake batfishes lives in the northern Gulf wh...
