This visualization depicts bathymetric features of the western Atlantic Ocean Basin, including the continental shelf, captured by satellite. Credit: NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite and Information…
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Mesopelagic fishes are an important element of marine food webs, a huge, still mostly untapped food resource, and great contributors to the biological carbon pump,…
A lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, mesopelagic fishes that undergo daily vertical migrations. Credit: Steven Haddock/Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The deep sea holds more…
Well before evolving to help vertebrates breathe underwater, gills played an early and equally important role in regulating the salt and pH balance of blood,…
Palaeoneiros clackorum skull and shoulder girdle. Credit: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; © President and Fellows of Harvard College According to new research, ray-finned…
This map shows the estimated total fishing vessel activity and the amount of this activity obscured by the suspected disabling of automatic identification systems in…
Five early Silurian fishes from China rewrite the evolutionary story of “from fish to human.” Credit: IVPP The discovery of a fossil “treasure hoard” illuminates…
Volumetric reconstruction of a tooth whorl viewed from its lingual side (holotype of Qianodus duplicis). The specimen is just over 2 mm in length. Credit:…
The study found that a mother’s mercury levels had little impact on the development of the child as long as she ate fish. Current advice…
Melanoma occurs in the cells that produce melanin and is the most deadly type of skin cancer. A study finds that high fish consumption is…
Cannibalism was widely thought to be common in nature, however, recent research suggests differently. According to recent research, wild fish cannibalism is uncommon. Even though mosquitofish…
The researchers confirmed that the genetic control region they discovered only controls the expression of a sodium channel gene in muscle and no other tissues.…
Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) is a small, brightly colored member of the dragonet family. Machine learning enables largest study to date on aesthetic preferences and fish…
Large predatory fish are expected to lag behind temperature shifts due to food-web dynamics. Sophisticated model reveals how predator-prey relationships affect species’ ranges. Warming of…
Stingray. Zebra mbuna (a species of cichlid fish) and stingrays can add and subtract one from the numbers one to five, according to a study…
The Antarctic spiny plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus). Credit: Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of…
The research team finds Atlantic cod in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: UFA Show & Factual, Germany Single individuals of Atlantic cod and squid occur much…
A new study finds that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish. Credit: NOAA Fisheries LED illuminated…
Deploying streamer lines behind boats in Alaska longline fisheries has saved thousands of seabirds from being accidentally caught each year. Credit: Ed Melvin/Washington Sea Grant…
“Total Surprise” As Massive Icefish Breeding Colony With 60 Million Active Nests Found in Antarctica
“Total Surprise” As Massive Icefish Breeding Colony With 60 Million Active Nests Found in Antarctica
Icefish in the Weddell Sea. Credit: PS118, AWI OFOBS team Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on January 13, 2022, have discovered a massive…