Researchers at Israeli Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa said fish trained to remember a certain sound at feeding time reacted to the same sound after five months in the wild. The researchers said the findings could help promote more natural fish farming techniques, allowing fish farmers to release trained fish into the wild to [...]
The brownsnout spookfish, a bizarre “four-eyed” fish, has been identified as the only backboned creature known to use mirrors rather than lenses to get images into focus. The brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, has ordinary eyes with lenses pointing upwards, but alongside them are downward-looking eyes fitted with tiny mirrored plates. The plates, thought to be [...]
A fish species is quite particular about the kind of leader its members choose, a recent study in Current Biology has found. “Stickleback fish preferred to follow larger over smaller leaders,” said Ashley Ward of Sydney University, who was involved in the research. “They also preferred fat over thin, healthy over ill, and so on. [...]
Twenty-nine scientists from India, eleven from Germany and ten others will board German research vessel, Polarstern, in Cape Town and head to the experiment site in southwest Atlantic near Antartica to find an answer to that question. They will stay in the cold and notoriously stormy waters for nearly two months to test a controversial [...]
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium is giving away a free wedding package, where one couple will be chosen to get married on a platform over the main dolphin pool. The aquarium’s dolphins – Nicholas and Winter – will assist in the nuptials. Winter (better known as the dolphin that received a prosthetic tail) was found tangled [...]
Post her visit to the Oceanarium in Singapore, Mumbai Mayor Shubha Raul wants to convert the racecourse into a tourist attraction. “We have suggestions to set up a dolphin park and an aquarium in the central part of the racecourse. The remaining place would then be utilised by BMC. Things are still at a primary [...]
The world’s largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium can now boast of being home to 12 new shark babies. The spotted wobbegong shark pups were born last week in the 6-million-gallon Ocean Voyager tank. They weighed about 2 ounces and were about 8 inches long, though they should grow to be about 10 feet long. Though [...]
The Roanoke logperch, one of the largest darters in the Perch family, was thought to live only in portions of the Roanoke and Chowan River basins of Virginia. However, biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, the Division of Water Quality and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences found two populations of the fish in [...]
