Scientists discover bizarre new fish off Brazil's Bahia coastSeptember 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species off Brazil's Bahia coast, which is more than six feet long, has small teeth, and has no scales covering its gelatinous body. According to a report in National Geographic News, the fish that has a long tail, was found floating in the sea by researchers from the TAMAR Project, a sea turtle conservation project.
Three workers die in Vietnam fish sauce vatSeptember 21st, 2009 HANOI - Three workers at a fish sauce factory suffocated when they entered a fermenting vat and inhaled a toxic gas, Vietnamese press reported Monday. The newspaper Nong Nghiep (Agriculture) reported that Bui Dinh Tuan, 36, had climbed into a fish sauce vat to repair a pipe Saturday morning at the factory where he worked in the coastal town of Cam Ranh.
Freediver swims through longest Oz ocean cave in record 2minutes 40secsAugust 25th, 2009 LONDON - A freediver has set a new world record by swimming through Australia's longest underwater cave. Mike Wells swam almost 400ft to create a new record.
60yr-old Chinese man fights 17-kg fish for 2hrsJuly 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 60-year-old Chinese man fought with a 17 kg fish for two hours to catch it, while he was fishing in a river in Changchun, Jilin province, on Wednesday. He kept on fighting the 1.17-m long fish until it finally gave up.
Fish fear divers and snorkelers who try to count them for censusJuly 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research by scientists from the University of Victoria has shown that fish avoid the divers and snorkelers who try to count them, and that is why using snorkelers and SCUBA divers may misrepresent the number of fish. Not all types of fish are equally frightened by the divers, and Faculty of 1000 member Helen Yap, who recommended the study, explains that therefore "such methods may not provide an accurate picture of the actual diversity and abundance of fish communities."
Counting coral reef fish informs researchers about local ecological changes.
Robo fish to shed light on how fish swim upstreamJuly 13th, 2009 DUBLIN - Soon, with the help of a swimming robotic fish, scientists would be able to understand how fish swim upstream. According to a report by the Independent News and Media Limited, five research institutions, including the University of Bath, have been given 1.8 million euros by the European Commission to build the swimming robot.
"Robo bats" with metal muscles may herald next gen of flying machinesJuly 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing robotic bats with muscles made of metal that offer increased maneuverability and performance, which might represent the next generation of remote controlled flyers. "Small flyers, or micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs), have garnered a great deal of interest due to their potential applications where maneuverability in tight spaces is necessary," said researcher Gheorghe Bunget.
Robo-bats to be next eyes in the skyJuly 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tiny flying machines can survey anything from indoors to collapsed buildings. Now researchers are mimicking nature's small flyers - and developing robotic bats that offer increased manoeuvrability and performance.
Humans may have started feasting on fish about 40,000 years agoJuly 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study by an international team of researchers has suggested that fish may have become an important part of the year-round diet for early humans in China as far back as 40,000 years ago. Freshwater fish are an important part of the diet of many peoples around the world, but it has been unclear when fish became an important part of the year-round diet for early humans.
Underwater robots to rapidly identify potential threats in murky watersJuly 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists is developing novel underwater laser networking and imaging technologies that will be used onboard a group of small, co-operating robots, which will be able to rapidly identify and communicate potential threats in murky coastal waters. The new technology is being developed by scientists at the Ocean Visibility and Optics Laboratory at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University.
Fish are likely to exhibit natural behavior in large groups rather than smallJune 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has determined that fish are more likely to exhibit natural behavior in a home aquarium in large groups, rather than when kept alone or in pairs. Scientists at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter in the UK conducted the research.
High CO2 levels lead to abnormally large fish ear bonesJune 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the ocean can cause abnormally large growth in the otoliths, or ear bones, of fish, say researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Considered a fundamental bodily structure in fish, otoliths serve a vital function in fish by helping them sense orientation and acceleration.
Farmed fish may transmit mad cow diseaseJune 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Farmed fish, if fed by-products rendered from cows, could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease-commonly known as mad cow disease. Questioning the safety of eating farmed fish, Dr.
Fish that triggers hallucinations netted in ChannelMay 14th, 2009 LONDON - An exotic fish, which can trigger LSD-like hallucinations when eaten, has been discovered in UK waters. The mind-bending species of bream, sarpa salpa, was found many hundreds of miles away from its normal habitat in the English Channel.
Coral fish's mastery in camouflage helps it live incognitoFebruary 27th, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists have identified a coral reef fish that has been successfully living incognito by using its colour-changing ability. Karen Cheney, from University of Queensland's (UQ) School of Biological Sciences, who co-authored the study, said the blue-striped fangblenny used a number of different disguises to pass undetected on coral reefs.
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