Adjusting the water flow rate in a river can prevent invasive species from moving upstream and expanding their range. An applied mathematician at UT has…
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KAUST researchers study whale shark movement patterns near the Shib Habil reef (Arabic for “Rope Reef”), a known whale shark hotspot in the Red Sea…
Prehistoric and historic walrus skulls, tusks and bone fragments often wash ashore on the southern coast of Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland. An international collaboration of…
A scribbled filefish, about 50 days old and 2 inches long, surrounded by plastics. Credit: David Liitschwager New research shows that many larval fish species…
Great Barrier Reef anemonefish can see UV light and may use this to find anemones and other anemonefish. Credit: Prof Justin Marshall, University of Queensland…
The bigger the fish, in this instance a lake trout, the greater the accumulation of methylmercury in the filets of the fish. All five Great…
A Japan pig seahorse (Hippocampus japapigu) in its natural habitat at Hejie, Kenting, Taiwan.Credit: Jolly Huang CC-BY 4.0 While monitoring of cryptic and elusive tiny…
The composition of sclerites of this white and fan-shaped coral is characteristic for this species and differentiates it from others in the same genus. Credit:…
Snakehead side. Credit: Photo courtesy of Noah Bressman The largest fish to walk on land, the voracious northern snakehead, will flee water that is too…
This is Dr. Ed Pope holding a shore crab.Credit: Swansea University Unique study shows how crabs can work their way through a complex maze in…
A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from near extinction, a new study shows. A population of humpback whales in the…
This is a CT-scanned image of the piranha Serrasalmus medinai. Note the ingested fish fins in its stomach. Credit: University of Washington Piranha fish swap…
The Northern clingfish can hold tightly to rough, slimy surfaces. Credit: Petra Ditsche The finger-sized Northern clingfish employs one of the best suction cups in…
Tracking the world’s second-largest shark species has revealed that it moves to different depths depending on the time of year. Basking sharks spend most of…
New giant salamander species — Andrias sligoi — painting from ZSL archives. Credit: ZSL 74-year-old museum specimen, which once lived at ZSL London Zoo, identified…