A team from an aquarium in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, has succeeded in capturing the world’s first photographs of juvenile coelacanths, a fish regarded as a living fossil, off Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. According to Aquamarine Fukushima, the fry were found Oct. 6 at a depth of 161 meters in Manado Bay off North Sulawesi Province, where [...]
Two eagle ray pups were also born at the aquarium recently and ten to 15 gentoo penguin chicks are expected to hatch before the end of the year. But that’s not all, the baby school sharks emerged from a wound in their mother’s side after she was bitten by a broadnose sevengill shark. The team [...]
Merlin Entertainments Group, the UK-based owner of Legoland amusement parks and Madame Tussauds, has already begun construction at Arizona Mills Mall where it will build the nation’s second Sea Life Aquarium. There are 30 Sea Life aquariums worldwide. The $15 million aquarium will occupy a nearly 26,000-square-foot space formerly leased by Hi-Health and host more [...]
The Monterey Bay Aquarium celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend. Besides having a look at the seahorse exhibit, the great white shark and the rest of the 550 species on display, those attending this weekend can participate in scavenger hunts, make crafts, hear live music and partake of a sustainable-seafood demonstration and tasting on Saturday. [...]
In an ongoing captive breeding programme at Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire Oaks, more than 100 baby seahorses have been born at the aquarium that is working to protect the threatened species. The youngsters, which measure less than a centimetre in length, are known as spotted seahorses and will eventually grow to a length of [...]
Ever heard of a fish pile up? I guess that’s what promoted the engineers over at Nissan to study the movements of schools of fish, to try and come up with a solution to keep the roads safe from accidents. Hoping to create safer cars, engineers at Nissan are studying the movements of schools of [...]
Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution. If next year’s trial of the first five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port of Gijon is successful, the team hopes they will be used in rivers, lakes and seas across the world. The carp-shaped [...]
Proving to be a big hit with the visitors are Blue Planet Aquarium’s latest arrivals – three rare nautilus – ancient relatives of octopus and squid – which were last seen in the region more than 100 million years ago. Once common in all the world’s oceans there are now only two known living species, [...]
