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'Landlubber' Fish Leap for Love When Tide Is Right: Research Sheds Light on How Animal Life First Evolved to Colonize Land
August 30, 2011 — One of the world's strangest animals -- a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs -- has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd ... > full story -
Kelp Farming Is on Its Way
August 30, 2011 — An underwater “field” as big as a Norwegian county could provide two billion liters of kelp-based fuel a year. Researchers are working to cultivate seaweed and kelp on a large ... > full story -
Selective Trawl Catches Norway Lobster but Allows Cod to Escape
August 29, 2011 — Researchers have decoded the behavior of Norway lobsters and cod and used the results to develop a selective trawl. This so-called SELTRA-trawl ensures that fewer cod end up as by-catch in the Norway ... > full story -
New Skin Test Determines Age of Wild Animals to Help Control Nuisance Animals
August 28, 2011 — A new skin test can determine the age of wild animals while they are still alive, providing information needed to control population explosions among nuisance animals, according to a new ... > full story -
Same Number of Fishermen, but Less Salmon in Spanish Rivers
August 26, 2011 — For many years, fewer Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) have been caught by sport fishers in northern Spanish rivers. The reason is that fishing effort and global warming effects are increasingly ... > full story -
Biological Communities Studied at Historical WWII Shipwrecks Along North Carolina
August 25, 2011 — In the waters off the North Carolina coast, historically-significant World War II submarines and shipwrecks rest on the seafloor, a testament to a relatively unknown chapter in US history. According ... > full story -
Hake Population Has Withstood Overfishing, Thanks to the Warming of the Sea
August 23, 2011 — Hake is constantly being fished in the waters of the European Atlantic Ocean and, nevertheless, resists stock depletion relatively well. At times nature is capable of correcting the mistakes made by ... > full story -
Genetic Markers Show Something Fishy With Certified Chilean Sea Bass Sales
August 22, 2011 — A population biologist has found that not all certified Chilean sea bass are what they are claimed to be. Some fish sold in stores are not from the fishing grounds certified as sustainable, and some ... > full story -
Fishing Games Gone Wrong: Trial-and-Error Behind Important Cause of Female Infertility
August 18, 2011 — When an egg cell is being formed, the cellular machinery which separates chromosomes is extremely imprecise at fishing them out of the cell's interior, scientists have discovered. The findings could ... > full story -
Fish Oil's Impact on Cognition and Brain Structure Identified in New Study
August 17, 2011 — Researchers have found positive associations between fish oil supplements and cognitive functioning as well as differences in brain structure between users and non-users of fish oil supplements. The ... > full story
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