Fish Tales

There are fears thousands of "ravenous" kingfish that escaped a state government jointly-run fish farm off Port Stephens will devastate the marine...
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Each year, over a million Gulf corvina swim to their spawning grounds along the Colorado River Delta. These fish are famous for their loud,...
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With a lifespan of just 18 months, giant cuttlefish are known to 'live fast and die young'. For a few months each year about 12km across a bay from...
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Sharks draw the crowds at marine exhibits with their promise of peril, but in this city’s aquarium lurks a bigger menace. Lucy the turtle. Lucy is a...
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In the pristine waters of Flinders Bay, near Augusta in Western Australia, the seabed is being transformed. Hatchery-bred abalone grown to maturity...
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The Mycale henscheli sponge makes a chemical that could one day be a more effective cancer drug, with fewer side-effects than current medicines. A...
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By now, plenty of people are familiar with fossil fuel subsidies — the hundreds of billions that governments spend to bankroll the burning of oil,...
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In the video below, catch a rare look at a red-lipped batfish, one of the strangest residents of the underwater kingdom off of Cocos Island. This...
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Romance! Danger! Hope! And the wildest sex even you can imagine. In her new book Sex in the Sea, coral reef ecologist Marah J. Hardt dishes on the...
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Sharks strike fear into the heart of swimmers but there were only six fatalaties worldwide in 2015. Hysteria about shark attacks bears little...
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