Wrasses dazzle: how fairy wrasses got their flamboyant colours
Coral reef fish diverged in 'evolutionary arms race' during last ice ageCredit: Yi-Kai Tea. With their exuberant colours, fiery personalities ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Microplastic sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and coastal ocean revealed
Rutgers research shows stormwater could be important source of plastic pollutionCredit: NOAA Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed ...
Oahu marine protected areas offer limited protection of coral reef herbivorous fishes
Credit: Noam Altman-Kurosaki Marine protected areas (MPAs) around O?ahu do not adequately protect populations of herbivorous reef fishes that eat ...
Warming may promote spread of invasive blue catfish
Study raises concerns of further establishment in U.S. East Coast estuariesCredit: © M. Fabrizio/VIMS. A study by researchers at William ...
Could a common barnacle help find missing persons lost at sea?
UNSW marine scientists have used a barnacle to develop two equations that can help estimate when and where a local ...
Tiny crustaceans’ show fastest repeatable movements ever seen in marine animals
New research shows that amphipod claws make snapping movements at 100 kilometres per hour and can accelerate nearly as fast ...
New research on hagfish provides insight into evolutionary origin of the eye
U of A biologists studying hagfish eyes uncover unexpected similarities to those of other vertebrates, including humans.Credit: Ryan Wayne The ...
Sea turtle: Sentinels and victims of plastic pollution in the Adriatic Sea
Credit: Carlo Marinacci Sea turtles are witnesses and victims of the high level of plastic pollution of the Adriatic Sea. ...
UM scientists achieve breakthrough in culturing corals and sea anemones cells
Credit: Mike Connelly MIAMI--Researchers have perfected the recipe for keeping sea anemone and coral cells alive in a petri dish ...
Bearded seals are loud — but not loud enough
Vocal threshold may hamper survival of this Arctic speciesCredit: Michael Cameron, NOAA Ithaca, NY-- During mating season, male bearded seals ...
Study finds human-caused North Atlantic right whale deaths are being undercounted
As recent sightings of entangled whales raise alarm, scientists say annual counts of right whale carcasses do a poor job ...
Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans
Credit: Francesca Samsel and Greg Abram Freshwater is accumulating in the Arctic Ocean. The Beaufort Sea, which is the largest ...
Follow the smell of the ocean to find where marine predators feed
The chemical DMSP is released when phytoplankton are consumed by zooplankton such as krill. A joint research project between organizations ...
Mangrove forests store more carbon when they’re more diverse
Credit: Guanghui Lin. Mangrove forests with greater species diversity can store more carbon, according to new research published in the ...
Scientists found in marine mold substance that antidotes paraquat
Credit: FEFU press office Biologically active compounds from the marine fungus Penicillium dimorphosporum protect cells from paraquat, the highly toxic ...
UMD partners with industry to improve rainbow trout filet production via genomic selection
Research represents the only work of its kind in rainbow trout, a $100 million industry in the U.S. aloneCredit: Public ...
Microbiome boost may help corals resist bleaching
Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith A simple but powerful idea is to improve the health of corals using cocktails ...
Whale Sharks show remarkable capacity to recover from injuries
Credit: Marine Conservation Society Seychelles A new study has for the first time explored the rate at which the world's ...
Salmon scales reveal substantial decline in wild salmon population & diversity
Researchers from Simon Fraser University analyzed 100-year-old salmon scales to assess the health of wild salmon populationsCredit: Michael Price The ...
Biological assessment of world’s rivers presents incomplete but bleak picture
Credit: Oregon State University An international team of scientists, including two from Oregon State University, conducted a biological assessment of ...