New Scientist Magazine has posted an incredible video clip showing how sailfish catch their prey along with a really interesting article about sailfish hunting strategies. As part of their weekly Zoologger column, which highlights information about different animals, the article about sailfish hunting examines research conducted by Paolo Domenici of the Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment […]
Popular Science has posted an interesting article about research conducted by the Monerey Bay Aquarium that reports that researches at MBA have developed a method for examining DNA found in small quantities of water to determine what fish and how many of each species inhabit local waters. The research is the first to develop a […]
There’s some interesting research coming out of the world of physics this week. G. Haller of The Institute for Mechanical Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and F.J. Beron-Vera of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida have publiched a piece of research titled “Coherent Lagrangian Vortices: The Black Holes of […]
A new study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) from researchers at the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Portland reveals that lookdown fish camouflage themselves by manipulating the polarized light that reflects off of their skin. Earlier studies also published in […]