Tag Archives: Fish

In the fall of 2024, somewhere near the headquarters of Brazil’s Environmental Military Police, an unending reverse-cascade of catfish began to climb the slippery rocks of the Sossego waterfall. The climbers were orange with thick black stripes, hence their nickname: bumblebee catfish. They had gathered in the thousands, their bodies latched onto the rocks and each other. Slowly and surely, …

Scientists Goofed and Accidentally Created a New Kind of Fish  AOL.com Source link

At dawn in the deep waters off North Maluku, Indonesia, a team of technical divers raised their camera lights and found themselves face to face with a creature once known only from stone. The brown spotted coelacanth, an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia, famous for vanishing before the last dinosaur fell, a survivor of a …

Do fish oil supplements boost heart health? Diet-based studies in the 1970s linked higher omega-3 levels to a significant reduction in cardiovascular risk, especially stroke risk. Based on that, Natarajan says, there was a flurry of interest in “capturing that macronutrient in a pill to see if that similar efficacy could be achieved outside of food.” But efforts to bottle …

Dogs don’t always goof around. Sometimes, they can also be great problem solvers. To provide the perfect example, this Instagram video shows a Golden Retriever cleverly releasing a stuck fish toy in a swimming pool. The owner seems surprised with the result and mentions in the caption, “We’re in crisis mode.” Golden Retriever successfully retrieves stuck fish toy without owner’s …

A boat, whose crew included one of the greatest basketball players of all time, finished in second place in the prestigious White Marlin Open held in Ocean City, Maryland. Michael Jordan was aboard the “Catch 23” when angler Trey “Cricket” McMillan reeled in a 71-pound white Marlin on the sixth day of the 52-year-old deep-sea fishing tournament that is dubbed …

Deep-Sea Fish Are Secretly Shaping Earth’s Carbon Cycle  SciTechDaily Source link

A red-footed booby hones in on a flying fish. Scientists attached minuscule cameras to two red-footed boobies, which recorded footage of the seabirds hunting a shoal of flying fish in the Indian Ocean. The birds live on a remote archipelago and were following the fish that can make powerful leaps out of the water. The camera caught the boobies plucking …

A fish market in the middle of California is the best meal for miles  SFGATE Source link

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States have revealed that many of the muscles once believed to define the anatomy of the coelacanth, a fish often described as a “living fossil,” were in fact misidentified …