Category Archives: Fish
ANTARCTIC BIODIVERSITY
May 2007 Amazing discoveries of fantastic new animals deep in the freezing sea around Antarctica. Described in this article in Nature (subscription needed to get past abstract), and in these pieces from The Independent and the BBC. Pictures here.
Filed under Ecology (scientific), Fish, Images, Oceans
NOISY NEMO
May 2007 Those clownfish make a huge racket to deter predators and competitors, and to attract a mate. This article in Science shows how they do it. (You or your institution will need a subscription to get past the abstract.) You … Continue reading
ADAPTIVE INBREEDING
February 2007 Species of Cichlid fishes showing biparental brood care also show a strong tendency to inbreeding, which is advantageous. Full details in this Current Biology article.
Filed under Conservation, Fish, Sex
HADDOCK PORN
February 2007 BBC radio report on the noises made by haddock when spawning. Honest! May not work outside the UK.
Filed under Audio files, Fish
…BUT SEA HORSES NEED TWO TO TANGO
January 2007 Article in J Exp Biol shows that sea horses have external, not internal fertilization – and dimorphic sperm! There’s a lovely pic on the BBC website here.
Filed under Fish, Sex, Uncategorized
PLASTIC KILLS SEA-LIFE
December 2006 BBC news report about the way our waste plastic is killing sea-birds and others. May not work outside the UK.
ARMOURED FISH WITH A BIG BITE
Reconstruction of a 400 MYR old armoured fish shows quite what a massive bite it had. BBC news summary here; open access original article from Biology Letters here.
TRAWLING IS BAD FOR FISH
November 2006 A Zoological Society of London report describes the devastating effect of deep-sea trawling. ZSL summary of the report here; BBC report on the report here.
Filed under Ecology (political), Fish
A VERY MODERN LAMPREY
October 2006 Hagfish and lampreys – jawless fish – are thought to be descendants of primitive jawless vertebrates. A new fossil casts that into doubt. Summary article from Nature, together with links to original research article here [Athens or Uni needed to … Continue reading
