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Tire-Related Chemical Is Largely Responsible for Adult Coho Salmon Deaths in Urban Streams

Dec. 3, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can ...

Octogenarian Snapper Found Off Australia Becomes Oldest Tropical Reef Fish by Two Decades

Dec. 1, 2020 — An 81-year-old midnight snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia has taken the title of the oldest tropical reef fish recorded anywhere in ...

Ghost Fishing Threatens Endangered River Dolphins, Critically Endangered Turtles, Otters

Nov. 25, 2020 — Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research ...

To Push or to Pull? How Many-Limbed Marine Organisms Swim

Nov. 24, 2020 — Couinter-intuitively, small marine animals don't use their limbs or propulsors to push themselves through the water while swimming. Instead, their appendages create negative pressure behind them that ...

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Community Conservation Reserves Protect Fish Diversity in Tropical Rivers

Nov. 25, 2020 — Small, community-based reserves in Thailand's Salween River Basin are serving as critical refuges for fish diversity in a region whose subsistence fisheries have suffered from decades of ...

How Ancient Fish May Have Prepared for Life on Land

Nov. 23, 2020 — A new study adds another layer to the remarkable evolutionary transition of life from water to land on Earth. The international study of the prehistoric 'relic' tetrapods, including salamander and ...

Large Predatory Fish Thrive on WWII Shipwrecks Off North Carolina Coast

Nov. 17, 2020 — Results of an expedition to a sunken U-boat and Nicaraguan freighter offer a detailed glimpse into unexpected 'islands of ...

Spiny Dogfish Eat Atlantic Cod: DNA May Provide Some Answers

Nov. 17, 2020 — As dogfish populations recover from overfishing, questions remain about how much Atlantic cod they are eating and its impact on the struggling cod population. Researchers used innovative genetic ...

Extremely Rare Parasitic Crustacean Discovered in Museum Shark Collection

Nov. 17, 2020 — Scientists have discovered an extremely rare species of cymothoid from the mouth of a museum specimen of a deep-sea shark caught from the East China Sea, suggesting its wide distribution around the ...

Some Sport Fish Are Caught Repeatedly, Which May Throw Off Population Count

Nov. 17, 2020 — A new study reports that, for several species of oceanic sport fish, individual fish that are caught, released and recaught are more likely to be caught again than scientists anticipated. The ...

Fish Carcasses Deliver Toxic Mercury Pollution to the Deepest Ocean Trenches

Nov. 16, 2020 — The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world's ...

Marine Fisheries Will Not Offset Farm Losses After Nuclear War

Nov. 9, 2020 — After a nuclear war, wild-catch marine fisheries will not offset the loss of food grown on land, especially if widespread overfishing continues, according to a new study. But effective pre-war ...

Fish Give Insight on Sound Sensitivity in Autism

Nov. 10, 2020 — Scientists used zebrafish that carry the same genetic mutations as humans with Fragile X syndrome and autism, and discovered the neural networks and pathways that produce the hypersensitivities to ...

Fossil Feces Hows Fishy Lunches from 200 Million Years Ago

Nov. 9, 2020 — A new study of coprolites, fossil feces, shows the detail of food webs in the ancient shallow seas around Bristol in south-west England. One hungry fish ate part of the head of another fish before ...