Cats with a fondness for gourmet meals are threatening fish supplies, an Australian scientist says.
Deakin University scientist Dr Giovanni Turchini has discovered an estimated 2.48 million tonnes of forage fish - a limited biological resource - is consumed by the global cat food industry each year.
“That such a large amount of fish is used for [...]
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THEY met on the local hot rod scene. They saw one another at tattoo conventions around the area, comparing bikes. They looked like heavies, a band of Hells Angels, with nicknames equally tough: Mike Tattoo, Big Ant, Johnny O, Batso, Sal, Angel, Des.
They meant no harm. Clad in leather, inked to the hilt in skulls [...]
A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean’s warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.
The red lionfish, a tropical native of the Indian and Pacific oceans that probably escaped from a Florida fish tank, is showing up everywhere — from the [...]
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Females from at least one other species besides our own will sometimes go to great lengths — even putting themselves in harm’s way — to avoid sexual harassment by males, according to a new study.
Trinidadian guppies of the female persuasion, for example, would rather risk being eaten by predators that hang around with obnoxious males [...]
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Meet the pub goldfish which has spent the past four years swimming upside down.
Aussie floats with its belly pointing up and its eyes staring down because of a problem with its swim bladder.
Regulars at the Globe Inn, in Lympstone, near Exeter, joke that the fish must be drunk. Pub landlord Liam Matthews, 53, [...]
When you’re looking for reliable information about human medical conditions, you can always turn to health portals like WebMD, RightHealth, OrganizedWisdom or iMedix. But what if your cat has stopped eating or your dog has started losing its hair? You’d probably resort to Googling the symptoms in hope that you could save yourself a trip [...]
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Lack of oxygen can do in most creatures, but a new study has found epaulette sharks have evolved a clever solution for avoiding suffocation — they shut down their body’s electrical activity and even go temporarily blind until they can properly “breathe” oxygen again through their gills.
The discovery puts the shark on the short list [...]
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The poor idiotfish — nicknamed by fishermen for its gawky, bulbous eyes — might get the last laugh yet.
The high cost of fuel is keeping large numbers of British Columbia’s deep-sea trawlers closer to shore, giving the idiotfish, one of the newest darlings of the fishing industry, a bit of a reprieve.
However, the David Suzuki [...]
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Although many sharks are experiencing population declines of up to 90 percent now, a new study on western North Atlantic blue sharks has found that numbers of the colorful species there are currently down, but not out.
Other reports had concluded that the region’s blue sharks were declining by around 60 percent, but the new [...]
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A live deep-sea fish has been caught at a record depth of 2,300m on the hot vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Three shrimp species were also pulled to the surface, researchers report in the journal Deep-Sea Research.
Scientists have engineered a new device that allows recovery of live animals under their natural pressure at greater [...]
