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A novel study of fishes indicates animal lenses can show exposure to harmful mercury that can affect growth and reproduction of the fishes. Read on to know more!
Polishing records of anatomical descriptions, vocal accounts, and sound recordings, Cornell University ecologist Aaron Rice and colleagues were able to identify physiological features that enable Actinopterygii or ray-finned groups of fishes to make noises minus their vocal cords.
In a new discovery, the complex neural network that connects the brain to the eyes might have developed far earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.
"Lazarus taxon" refers to a species that disappears for a time - either from the fossil records or directly believed to be extinct - only to return at a later time.
While it has long been theorized that fishes swim in schools to conserve energy through neighbor-induced flows, as with flocks of birds, the use of robot fishes provides the first conclusive evidence.
A team of biologists reports a comparison between museum collection of cichlid fishes kept before a dam closed on the Amazon Tocantins River in 1984, and current species from the Tucurui Reservoir - collected 34 years later.
The study showed that the areas, where the sharks were found in fewer numbers or were uncommon, reef fishes devoured more prey from the water column, where the danger of being assaulted is more noteworthy than from the reef, which provides more shelter.