Best Plants for Beginners
By Lea Maddocks As Lea Maddocks explains in the second part of her article in the December 2012 issue, Setting Up a Successful Low-Tech Planted Tank Like a Pro, Part 2: Aquascaping and Maintaining...
View ArticleCichlid Fish Display Extensive Social Interactions
Neolamprologus pulcher (N. pulcher) is the breed of cichlid used in the study. Credit: Dario Josi A new study shows that cichlid fish reared in larger social groups from birth display a greater and...
View ArticleFirst In Fish: ‘Fully Warm-Blooded’ Moonfish Prowls The Deep Seas
Over decades of studying the oceans’ fishes, some species have been found to have partial warm-bloodedness. But scientists say the opah, or moonfish, circulates heated blood — and puts it to a...
View ArticleDeadly Sponges Snuffing-Out Coral Colonies
Brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) overgrown and smothered by the lavender branching sponge Aplysina cauliformis. Joseph Pawlik, UNCW It sounds like the plot of a B-movie, but researchers have...
View ArticleNew Colonial Marine Organisms Discovered in Madeira
Favosipora purpurea, one of the new species of bryozoans discovered on the island of Madeira. Credit: Javier Souto et al. The Portuguese island of Madeira is considered a diversity hotspot for...
View ArticleIconic Indian fish on the brink of extinction
Humpback Mahseer. Credit: Bournemouth University The legendary humpback Mahseer, one of the world’s most iconic freshwater fish, is on the brink of extinction according to scientists from Bournemouth...
View ArticleGenetic analysis of the American eel helps explain its decline
American Eels of the upper St. Lawrence grow slowly but attain larger sizes (top) compared with eels in coastal areas (bottom). Credit: Guy Verreault/Current Biology 2015 The American eel has been a...
View ArticleSisters act together: Cichlid sisters swim together in order to reach the goal
Cichlid fish in the Lake Tanganyika. Credit: Stefanie Schwamberger The manner and routes of dispersal vary with the species and the ecological conditions. Many fish form shoals to avoid predation....
View ArticleWhy some threatened corals swap ‘algae’ partners
This image shows Caribbean star coral (Orbicella faveolata) with individual coral polyps showing different levels of bleaching during a warm summer bleaching event in summer 2014. Image taken off...
View ArticleLongest ever tiger shark tracking reveals remarkable, bird-like migrations
This is the tiger shark from a side view. Credit: Courtesy of Nick Filmalter/Danah Divers Tiger sharks are among the largest and most recognizable sharks on the planet, yet many of their habits remain...
View ArticleGeological game changer: When continents connected
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed....
View ArticleFirst In Fish: ‘Fully Warm-Blooded’ Moonfish Prowls The Deep Seas
Over decades of studying the oceans’ fishes, some species have been found to have partial warm-bloodedness. But scientists say the opah, or moonfish, circulates heated blood — and puts it to a...
View ArticleDeadly Sponges Snuffing-Out Coral Colonies
Brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) overgrown and smothered by the lavender branching sponge Aplysina cauliformis. Joseph Pawlik, UNCW It sounds like the plot of a B-movie, but researchers have...
View ArticleNew Colonial Marine Organisms Discovered in Madeira
Favosipora purpurea, one of the new species of bryozoans discovered on the island of Madeira. Credit: Javier Souto et al. The Portuguese island of Madeira is considered a diversity hotspot for...
View ArticleParental experience may help coral offspring survive climate change
This is an adult coral (Pocillopora damicornis) Photo Credit: Hollie Putnam A new study from scientists at the University of Hawai’i — Mānoa’s (UHM) Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) reveals...
View ArticleOctopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior
The larger Pacific striped octopus has a unique hunting style. Photo credit: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus...
View ArticleFoes can become friends on the coral reef: How seaweed becomes coral’s friend...
Researcher Cody Clements places bottle caps into the rocky sea floor off Votua Reef, on the Coral Coast of the Fiji Islands. The caps are used to anchor small colonies of coral for experimentation to...
View ArticleNeon jackfish leaves Yellowknife fisherman stumped
It’s not the Loch Ness monster, but a Yellowknife angler has ignited debate of his own after landing, and then releasing, a fluorescent green pike while fishing in Great Slave Lake. “The whole top of...
View ArticleHuge Ancient Greek City found underwater in the Aegean Sea
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs has announced that remnants of a massive Bronze Age city have been discovered submerged in the Aegean Sea. The settlement, which dates...
View ArticleMeet pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion; Predator from prehistoric seas
This is an artist’s rendering of Pentecopterus. Credit: Patrick Lynch/Yale University You don’t name a sea creature after an ancient Greek warship unless it’s built like a predator. That’s certainly...
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