Mild-mannered and merely an inch (2.5 cm) in length, a glittery little tropical fish is being credited with protecting an area of rainforest the size of the state of Pennsylvania, nearly 50,000 square miles (120,000 sq km).
If there is one Poster-Child-Species to inspire fishkeepers to help save tropical ecosystems, it is the Cardinal Tetra, Paracheirodon axelrodi, so named for its vivid...
If London\'s SUN newspaper is to be believed, a giant Asian catfish known as the Goonch has mutated into a maneater, after developing a taste for the human remnants dumped from riverside funeral pyres. Based on a new documentary being aired on Britain\'s Channel 5 television, the behemoth catfish tale has just enough plausibility to focus new interest on a species occasionally makes its way...
Nevada Department of Wildlife investigators have begun clamping down on the sale and possession of African Clawed Frogs being sold as mail-order tadpoles by a Florida-based marketing company.
\"It\'s NOT Just an Ordinary Frog!\" is the sell line on [Grow-a-Frog], and it turns out the amphibians are, in fact, a potentially invasive species banned in 11 states.
Nevada biologists say they...
One aquatic horror film proclaimed it \"Part fish. Part snake. Pure Evil.\" National Geographic dubbed it \"Fishzilla.\" Fishermen call it \"A Pike on Steroids.\" The US Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged the name \"Frankenfish\" and noted that Giant Snakeheads (Channa micropeltes) had \"reportedly attacked, and in some instances killed, humans who approached the mass of young\" being...
If a home aquarium is a microcosmic world, we play a godlike role when we introduce a new fish species: choose poorly and mayhem or the loss of animals may result; choose intelligently and years of beauty and fascinating behaviors can be our reward.
As stewards of creatures from coral reefs and rainforest streams, our first goal is to keep our fishes alive and healthy.
Here are 7...
Previously unknown to scientists, divers, and even observant aquarium keepers, a secret form of communication between coral reef fishes has been discovered.
Because red light downwelling from the sun is selectively absorbed by seawater, scientists have long assumed that red light is of little importance to reef fishes in shallower waters less than 33 ft. (10 m) deep where blue-green light...
