Scientists led by Dr. Marcelo Andrade of the Universidade Federal do Para report that they have discovered a new species of omnivorous freshwater fish...
Archaeologists in Sweden say they have uncovered the remains of a 9,200-year-old storage for fermented fish.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a...
A group of paleontologists from the United States, the UK and China has discovered two new suspension-feeding species of the bony fish genus Rhinconichthys.
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A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, a bioluminescent shark, a ruby seadragon, and the world’s smallest snail are among the...
A team of scientists led by University of Melbourne researcher Dr Matthew Le Feuvre has described twenty new species of freshwater fish from the rivers...
A new species of bioluminescent shark has been described from eight specimens collected off the Pacific coast of Central America at depths ranging between...
Marine biologists from the University of British Columbia were lucky to witness a New Holland seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) giving birth in the waters...
An international team of researchers from Malaysia and Australia has successfully sequenced the genome of a famous ornamental fish species called the Asian...
After a hundred years of debate, a team of Canadian scientists has proved that American eels (Anguilla rostrata) really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea...
The Arctic polar night is not a period without any biological activity as had been assumed, says a large international team of biologists led by Norwegian...
According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, enamel evolved in the skin and colonized the teeth much later.
Early evolution of...
WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report provides the most accurate picture of the state of the ocean, and the results are not very good. The report, released...
A new species of the deep-sea anglerfish genus Lasiognathus has been described from the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Lasiognathus dinema,...
A new study, led by Prof Minoru Tanaka of the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, shows that the foxl3 gene, which is expressed in...
A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
A chemical signature recorded on otoliths (ear bones) of Chinook salmon could tell scientists where the fish lived, says a new study published in the journal...
A team of researchers led by Dr Nicholas Wegner of NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center has discovered a whole-body form of endothermy...
A group of biologists headed Prof Taifo Mahmud of Oregon State University has discovered that zebrafish (Danio rerio) are able to synthesize a chemical...
