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Streams Stressed by Pharmaceutical Pollution
April 1, 2013 — Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality. So reports a new paper that highlights the ecological cost of ... > full story -
Pirate Perch Probably Use Chemical Camouflage to Fool Prey
March 29, 2013 — Dark and sleek, it hides beneath the water waiting for prey. A researcher says the target will never know what hit them because they probably can’t smell the voracious pirate ... > full story -
Opposites Attract: How Cells and Cell Fragments Move in Electric Fields
March 28, 2013 — Like tiny crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields -- but in opposite directions, scientists have found. Their results could ... > full story -
New Fossil Species from a Fish-Eat-Fish World When Limbed Animals Evolved
March 27, 2013 — Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have ... > full story -
Dusting for Prints from a Fossil Fish to Understand Evolutionary Change
March 27, 2013 — In 370-million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Studying and describing this fish's ... > full story -
Lunar Cycle Determines Hunting Behavior of Nocturnal Gulls
March 27, 2013 — Zooplankton, small fish and squid spend hardly any time at the surface when there's a full moon. To protect themselves from their natural enemies, they hide deeper down in the water on bright nights, ... > full story -
Hope for Galapagos Wildlife Threatened by Marine Invaders
March 26, 2013 — Increasing tourism and the spread of marine invasive non-native species is threatening the unique plant and marine life around the Galapagos ... > full story -
Scientists Confirm First Two-Headed Bull Shark
March 25, 2013 — Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first-ever, two-headed bull ... > full story -
Predictions of Climate Impacts on Fisheries Can Be a Mirage
March 25, 2013 — In the early 1940s, California fishermen hauled in a historic bounty of sardine that set the backdrop for John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" novel. But by the end of the decade the nets came up empty and ... > full story -
A Marine Animal to Feed Your Eco-Car
March 25, 2013 — The marine animal tunicate can be used both as biofuel and fish food, according to new research. On the ocean floor, under the pier, and on ship ropes – that’s where the tunicates live. ... > full story
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