In dark alleys of the Pacific and Indian oceans, new research shows some of the deadliest, armored fishes on the planet are packing switchblades in their faces.
Discovery of switchblade-like defensive system redraws family tree of stonefishes
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Young salmon may leap to 'oust the louse'
“Everyone who has gone fishing has wondered why fish jump,” says John Reynolds, SFU professor of marine ecology.
Behavioral Study of Greater Yellowstone Pronghorn Finds Highway Crossing Structures a Conservation Success
A recently published study by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Oregon State University has confirmed that efforts to protect migrating pronghorn by installing wildlife crossing structures over highways have succeeded, in terms of the increased success rate of pronghorn crossings over time.
Dive into the mysterious connection between malaria and coral reefs
For most of us, microbes mean only one thing: disease. Disease-causing microbes are actually the extreme minority of the most abundant form of life on Earth.
Heatwave Made 'Twice as Likely by Climate Change'
In the newly published report, researchers from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University, who worked in collaboration with the World Weather Attribution network (WWA), reveal that climate change more than doubled the likelihood of the European heatwave, which could come to be known as regular summer temperatures.
Cigarettes account for half of waste recovered on Vancouver and Victoria shorelines
Plastic waste—particularly from smoking– still dominates litter collected from B.C. coastlines, a recent study from the University of British Columbia has found.
