This week’s image is of the swashbuckling ‘Gladiator of the Sea’ – the swordfish, sometimes known as a broadbill. But...
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Eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to breed “Eels are sending us a really major signal that we’re harming our...
Glofish - zebrafish carrying a colour gene from the sea anemone Scientists claim they can now anticipate how species will...
Extant hominids, which include apes and humans come from a plant eating ancestry. Early hominids lived in a woodland-savannah environment...
95% of the stony coral in the oceans will be gone within less than 50 years unless we act now....
From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all species on earth are constantly evolving, albeit some more quickly than...
Hello all and welcome to the inauguration of Sea Snacks, my blog about marine biology and the science of the...
Dead fish after an overflow event. Image: Thames Anglers Conservancy. There once was a time when the Thames was teeming...
The Summer 2012 issue of I, Science took a look at perception, discussing senses and their limitations. However, one sense...
The different pigmentation of Medaka: (a,g) HN1 - Wild Type (b,h) b98 - orange (c,i) ci - grey There...
Andrew Purcell There can be few species on Earth about which more myths exist than piranhas. Piranhas have an...
Andrew Purcell Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including...
Andrew Purcell Some shocking statistics about the world’s rivers: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of...
Paddling in the Congo River System is not for the fainthearted. This is the Goliath Tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath). Living in...
There’s been a rumour flying around the internet that a mysterious fish from the deep predicted the Japanese earthquake. The...
Forget space. There are still parts of our Earth that have yet to be explored. In the depths of our...
Hide and seek goes on just about everywhere. It’s a simple case of looking hard enough. Camouflage allows organisms of...
The Great White Shark or Carcharodon carcharias if you want the Latin, otherwise known as Jaws. This infamous predator can...
I realise that our blogs have been somewhat penguin-heavy this week and I can assure you that this was in...
Apart from a few eccentric Germans, being eaten is probably the last thing any of us would ever like to...
