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Seals Sense Shapes Using Their Whiskers to Feel Wakes
May 12, 2011 — Seals whiskers are remarkably sensitive. They can even pick up a fish's trail up to 35 seconds after it passed. Now a team of scientists in Germany has discovered that seals can tell differently ... > full story -
Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-Dwelling Fish
May 10, 2011 — There's a reason to be afraid of the dark. Fish accustomed to living near the light of the water's surface become proverbial "fish out of water" when they move to dark environments like those found ... > full story -
Smallest Turtle in North America Becomes More Scarce
May 10, 2011 — Veterinarians, conservation biologists and wildlife managers have joined forces to answer a perplexing wildlife question: Why are bog turtles getting ... > full story -
Radio Transmitters to Reveal the Secrets of Sea Trout
May 10, 2011 — By surgically inserting radio transmitters into 100 sea trout in Sweden, researchers hope to reveal the route the sea trout take when they migrate to sea. The researchers also wish to enlist the help ... > full story -
Growing Seal Population Threatens Small-Scale Fishing, Swedish Study Finds
May 10, 2011 — Seals and the fishing industry compete for fish of all types -- no matter whether it is salmon, whitefish, herring or cod. Seal-safe fishing gear is the most sustainable solution, and we need ... > full story -
An Enigmatic Problem in Marine Ecology Uncovered
May 10, 2011 — New research has uncovered the mystery behind the relationship between the duration of the open water period and the geographic coverage of marine ... > full story -
'Small Fry' Fish Just as Vulnerable to Population Plunges as Sharks or Tuna
May 2, 2011 — Sharks, tuna, billfish and other oceanic top predators have suffered major population declines in recent decades, causing many researchers to consider them the species at the highest risk of ... > full story -
Winners of Mass Extinction: With Predators Gone, Prey Thrive
May 2, 2011 — In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species. For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics ... > full story -
Early Warning Signal for Ecosystem Collapse: Fluctuations Before the Fall
April 28, 2011 — Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals emanating from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning -- a death knell -- of the impending collapse of the lake's ... > full story -
Jump in Communication Skills Led to Species Explosion in Electric Fishes
April 28, 2011 — The Mormyridae, a family of African fishes that communicate by means of weak electric discharges, has more than 200 species. New work shows the fishes evolved a complex signal-processing brain before ... > full story
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