The often remade song “He Ain’t Heavy… He’s My Brother” probably owes a good deal of its enduring popularity to its depiction of the loving familial bond between two siblings - one aiding the other despite…
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Rainbowfish embryos, as young as only four days after fertilisation, are able to smell potential predatory threats, a new study by Australian researchers has found. Published today, the findings show these…
A spectacular new “missing link” fossil has been unearthed in China. The 419 million year old armoured fish, called Entelognathus, meaning “complete jaw” solves an age-old debate in science. For palaeontologists…
A new pair of “barochambers”, which simulate the effects of rapid pressure changes on fish, could help increase fish survival…
A new kind of electric fish, described as having eel-like features, has been identified in a remote region of northern Guyana…
The deliberate act of falsely representing, labelling or advertising food, known as “food fraud”, is not a recent phenomenon. The deceitful adulteration of food has a long history based on the promise…
In our society, not many people are lucky enough to have an ideal boss who they would want to follow faithfully for the rest of their lives. Many might even find their boss selfish and arrogant or complain…
A loss of shelter is threatening the survival of the world’s clownfish. An international study has found that the effects…
Contaminated during the surrounding area’s history of mining, the River Hayle in Cornwall contains metals including copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium at levels that can kill brown trout, a particularly…
Small prey fish can greatly improve the chances of survival by simultaneously reducing the size of their eyes and growing…
Climate change could cause local extinctions of chocolate dipped damselfish that are highly specialised to the conditions…
The Spotted Handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) is a small fish that lives on the sea bed in the cool, sheltered waters of south-east Tasmania. It has modified pelvic fins that look like “hands”, hence…
Fossilised soft tissues, such as skin and muscle, are exceptionally hard to come by. When you think the chances of an animal being fossilised is less than one in a million - and these usually have only…
Around 395 million years ago, the first tetrapod (four-legged animal) wandered out of its watery home and stepped onto land. This was made possible by the evolution of weight-bearing hips consisting of…
In European waters controlled by the EU Common Fisheries Policy, the discarding of fish overboard has long been condemned by environmentalists and regretted by fishers. According to the UN Food and Agriculture…
It’s not a thought that occurs to most of us, but flushing the toilet doesn’t just mean disposing of our bodily waste. We’re also flushing away some of the medicine we take down with it. Our contraceptive…
The evolutionary steps from the hips of our fish ancestors to the weight-bearing hips of humans are not as complex as previously…
The Little Pygmy Perch, or Nannoperca pygmaea, is a new species of fish discovered in south-western Australia. First found…
The Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) grows to a maximum of three centimetres long. As males reach adulthood they develop the vivid colouration suggested by their common name. In contrast…
Invasive species of fish, collectively known as Asian carp, may prove more of a concern to American river systems than previously…
Principais colaboradores
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Executive Director and Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Gulbali Institute (Agriculture, Water and Environment), Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Associate professor, University of Canberra
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Associate professor in ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Marine biology, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Fellow in Economics, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral research associate, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Associate professor in marine biology, Swansea University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist - Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
