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The Coral Triangle has often been compared to the Amazon rainforest, based on the sheer scale of its biodiversity. And now, ...
Amphidromous fish—which migrate between freshwater streams and the sea—can move between habitats thanks to ocean currents.
An unprecedented census of life in the world's oceans is discovering three new fish species a week on average and predicts as many as 5,000 unknown fish species may be lurking undetected ...
Fish communicate using sound, but conservation laws often ignore their voices, acoustic habitats, and behaviors.
At least 16 types of recently discovered deep-sea fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, according to a study published Thursday.. The fish -- called the ultra-black fish, which live ...
The researchers caught three of the new fish species in the northern Gulf of Mexico at depths of 3,280 to 4,921 feet (1,000 to 1,500 meters) in what’s called the bathyal zone – nicknamed the ...
Generation over generation, catch after catch, fishing changes fish evolution. This phenomenon, called fisheries-induced evolution, is well documented, though it impacts the myriad species of fish ...
A new analysis published this fall puts the region’s total number of fish species at 253. That includes 37 species never before documented in the Salish Sea — the 6,500-square-mile expanse ...
University of Helsinki. (2018, July 11). The first endemic Baltic Sea fish species received its name. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 07 ...