Fish - Page 52

January 4, 2016

Male bass are experiencing unwanted sex changes

Male bass are experiencing unwanted sex changes, apparently thanks to the "chemical soups" that pass for waterways in the Northeast.

December 4, 2015

‘Like a Horror Movie’: Rare frilled shark caught off Australia

A rare frilled shark, whose species dates back 80 million years, was caught in a fishing trawler off Australia's coast.

November 29, 2015

Reluctant anglers drafted in war on fish

Balancing on some boulders along the Lamar River here on a recent afternoon, Dave Hallac clutched his fly-fishing rod and reeled in one of the outlaws.

November 21, 2015

Washington diver's giant octopus hunt ignites wrath of Puget Sound advocates

A teen diver has incurred the wrath of a Washington state community by breaking an unwritten code when he dragged a live giant Pacific octopus from the water.

November 19, 2015

GMO salmon could be headed to supermarket near you

The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat, paving the way for the first altered animals to one day reach supermarket shelves.

October 21, 2015

DNA tool helping biologists find elusive or invasive species

When salmon, salamanders or other aquatic animals poop or shed skin cells, they leave behind traces of their DNA in the water, like clues left behind at a crime scene.

October 21, 2015

Sickly coral reefs fail the smell test

Young corals and fish in the Pacific Ocean can smell a bad neighborhood.

October 21, 2015

10 ways animals live longer

10 ways animals live longer

October 21, 2015

'Fishimal' was part fish, part limbed animal

Fossils for a creature that looked part fish and part limbed animal were recently found in northern Canada, a paper in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.

October 21, 2015

18-foot-long oarfish found off California coast

A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish.