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The Beast of the Danube
The Danube salmon's last hunting grounds in Europe can be found in the Balkans - but a rash of dam-building poses a risk to its habitat.
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Should California Spend 4 Billion Gallons to Save a Few Fish?
In the heart of California’s drought-parched Central Valley, fruit and vegetable supplier to the nation, a water district is defying a federal order to give some endangered trout a 3.9 billion gallon water ride out to sea. And it could be the first skirmish in a much wider conflict.
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The Hated, Invasive Parasite That’s Actually a Key Part of Its Ecosystem
Several years ago, a young man bow-fishing on New Jersey’s Raritan river spotted a long, thin creature in the murky water. He shot the animal through the neck, reeled it in, and posed for photographs. Eventually a friend posted one to Reddit. Within days...
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Warm-blooded Fish Discovered
Move over, mammals and birds, and make room for a fish called the opah in the warm-blooded club.
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Scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish
Other fish, like tuna, have only a limited form of warm-bloodedness.
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Puzzle over mass death of fish in Siberian lake
Shocked locals have posted pictures of the dead fish amid suspicions they were killed by explosions as officials melted winter ice to prevent flooding. The disturbing scene was at Lake Khatyng, in the Sakha Republic, the coldest region in Russia. The fish - believed to be carp and grouper - were seen dead en mass on 14 May.
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Near-Invincible Climbing Fish Threatens Australia
Fear is growing over an incredibly strong invasive fish that can climb on land, live for extended periods outside of water, and choke its predators to death.
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Deadly walking fish are slowly closing in on Australia
An aggressive fish that can walk has made it from Papua New Guinea to islands in the Torres Strait and now has mainland Australia in its sights. The climbing perch is supposed to be a freshwater species, but scientists from Queensland’s James Cook University yesterday confirmed that they had found the fish surviving in salty waterholes on Boigu and Saibai Islands, more than four kilometres from the PNG mainland.
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Terrifying “vampire fish” falling from the sky in Alaska
Fairbanks residents were shocked by eel-like lampreys with sharp teeth raining down from above
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The fish that can vanish in 2 seconds flat
The slender filefish can quickly blend in with its surroundings thanks to pigment cell and specialised skin flaps
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Lionfish, Lionfish Pictures, Lionfish Facts - National Geographic
Learn all you wanted to know about lionfish with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.
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Exit Dinosaurs, Enter Fishes
A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates – ray-finned fishes – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.
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State must fix hundreds of fish-blocking culverts
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state is under a federal court order to fix hundreds of barriers built under state roads and highways that block access for migrating salmon and thus interfere with Washington tribes' treaty-backed right to catch fish. But...
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Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day
Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day (the first Saturday after Mother’s Day each year) was created by FWC Commissioners to raise awareness about lionfish, a nonnative, invasive species that have a potential negative impact on native species and habitat.
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Fears surface about mercury in Shasta Lake fish
Shasta provides water from Sacramento to the crop-irrigating breadbasket of the San Joaquin Valley more than 300 miles south. It is California’s largest reservoir and a treasured jewel for anglers, many unaware of the poison in the lake and in the fish they catch.
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Hagfish: Champions of CO2 tolerance question the origins of vertebrate gill function
The gill is widely accepted to have played a key role in the adaptive radiation of early vertebrates by supplanting the skin as the dominant site of gas exchange. However, in the most basal extant craniates, the hagfishes, gills play only a minor role in gas exchange. In contrast, we found hagfish gills to be associated with a tremendous capacity for acid-base regulation.
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Would you swap leather for fish skin – and does it smell?
Welcome to the world of fish-skin fashion or – as it is described, more palatably, by those who sell it – fish leather. Fish leather looks a lot like snakeskin but, its suppliers claim, is a lot more sustainable than most hides, being a food byproduct
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Not All Plastics Equal
Ever buy a fish at a pet store that died within days of being put in an aquarium at home? The plastic bag in which the fish traveled home may be the culprit, according to research by University of Maine marine scientist Heather Hamlin
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Carp(e) Diem: Kentucky Sends Invasive Fish To China
Asian carp are not just a problem for the Great Lakes region. Fish processors in Kentucky are finding novel ways to dispose of them — including sending them to China, where they are prized as food.
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A J.W. Fiske antique cast-iron aquarium restoration
Actual footage of the functioning aquarium starts around the 3:00 mark.
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