According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014, global wildlife populations have declined by 52 per cent in 40 years.
Global wildlife populations have...
U.S. scientists headed by Dr Chi-Hing Christina Cheng of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have discovered that the so-called ‘antifreeze’...
According to a duo of German ichthyologists reporting in the Current Biology, archerfish are much more adaptable and skillful target-shooters than previously...
French ichthyologists led by Dr Philippe Keith of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have described a new species of pike from the Charente...
A study on an African fish called the Senegal bichir (Polypterus senegalus) led by Dr Hans Larsson of McGill University shows what might have happened...
A team of ichthyologists headed by Dr Stuart Welsh from West Virginia University has described a new species of eel-tailed catfish from the Tully River...
An international team of ichthyologists led by Dr Ralf Britz of Natural History Museum in London, UK, has described a new fish species from the Rio Negro in...
A new research conducted by Prof Martin Nyffeler from the University of Basel and Prof Bradley Pusey from the University of Western Australia provides...
A newly discovered fossil fish named Megamastax amblyodus is the largest vertebrate known in the Silurian fossil record, says a group of paleontologists...
Several fossil specimens of a Cambrian fish called Metaspriggina walcotti recently discovered in Canada shed new light on the development of the earliest...
Ichthyologists from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the University of Kentucky have announced the discovery of a new eyeless cavefish in...
Marine biologists have described two new species of coral reef fish from the waters off Curaçao, southern Caribbean.
The Spot-tail golden bass (Liopropoma...
Scientists led by Dr Yann Guiguen from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research have successfully sequenced the genome of the rainbow trout,...
Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of weakly electric fish, have been described from the Congo River.
Petrocephalus boboto...
A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri, Ras Mohammed,...
Biologists, reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, have identified more than 180 species of biofluorescent fishes. Their study shows that biofluorescence...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
