News tagged with carnivorous fish

Preserved shark fossil adds evidence to great white's origins

A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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U Arizona Wild Cat Research Center to study jaguar presence in the Southwest

The recent sighting of an adult male jaguar in Cochise County in southeastern Arizona came as a reminder that even though the big spotted cat usually is associated with dense rainforests in central and southern ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Video shows tool use by a fish

The first video of tool use by a fish has been published in the journal Coral Reefs by Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Is hunting wolves key to their conservation?

Hunters have been credited with being strong conservation advocates for numerous game species in multiple countries. Would initiating a wolf hunt invoke the same advocacy for the carnivores?

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Led by China, fish farms 'soaring'

Nearly half of the fish eaten around the world now comes from farms instead of the wild, with more foresight needed in China and other producers to limit the ecological impact, a study said on Tuesday.

Biology / Ecology

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Direct link found between diet ingredients and gut microbes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Globally, industrialized countries face an epidemic of obesity while poor nations continue to grapple with pervasive malnutrition, particularly among children. Increasing evidence suggests ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The eyes have it: Dinosaurs hunted by night

The movie Jurassic Park got one thing right: Those velociraptors hunted by night while the big plant-eaters browsed around the clock, according to a new study of the eyes of fossil animals. The study will ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Could Santa Claus be toxic?

The exact location of Santa’s Workshop has long been kept secret, but one thing every child knows is that he lives somewhere up by the North Pole. It’s a place that has seen great changes in recent ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New carnivorous mammal discovered in Madagascar - first in 24 years

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of small carnivore, known as Durrell’s vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) has been identified by researchers from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Natural History ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Dracula fish, bald bird among strange new species

Dracula fish, a bald songbird and a seven-metre (23 feet) tall carnivorous plant are among several unusual new species found in the Greater Mekong region last year, researchers said Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New dinosaur species discovered on 'lost continent' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the "lost continent" ...

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