Mystery surrounds Australian eel deaths

February 2, 2006

Australian scientists say they are baffled by the mass deaths of thousands of eels for the second consecutive summer in Victoria.

Thousands of dead eels have been found during the past month, washed ashore or slithering out of the water before perishing, The Age reported Thursday.

The deaths are being investigated by EPA Victoria. EPA Science Manager Tony Robinson told The Age the waterways did not appear polluted and other aquatic life was not affected. Robinson, however, said scientists suspect a link with high temperatures and drought conditions Australia has experienced.

Rate this story - 3.9 /5 (7 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues

Other Sciences / Other

51 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0

Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions ...

Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

20 hours ago | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 6

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...

Nobel Physics laureates undeserving, colleagues say: report

Other Sciences / Other

16 hours ago | 5 / 5 (3) | 2

Former colleagues of two American scientists who won the 2009 Nobel physics prize say the winners, Willard Boyle and George Smith, did not deserve the award, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.

Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

22 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 0

Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago - some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated ...

UNL research aims to understand homelessness among women

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...