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The coelacanth is no longer the only living fossil fish swimming in our oceans. A Wits University PhD student has discovered that the parasitic lamprey, a fish which sucks the blood of other fish, is also a living fossil.
After years of painstaking work, Robert Gess has uncovered a world first: a 36...
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Experts have clashed over the existence of Great White Sharks off the UK coast.
Speculation is mounting amid a series of claimed sightings by holidaymakers and fishermen and a new documentary on BBC One on Sunday.
Marine biologist Douglas Herdson, from the National Marine Aquarium in Plymo...
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Devils Hole pupfish
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It's 110 degrees, hardly a heat wave for Death Valley. And in a small, bathtub-warm pool below a steep, rocky incline, small fish appear to be at play, darting and chasing each other through patches of algae. These are Devils Hole pupfish and, aside from the strangeness of finding fish in the middle of...
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Tiktaalik roseae
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About 375 million years ago, Canada’s Ellesmere Island looked very different. It enjoyed a subtropical climate on a massive continent, with big ferns and giant horsetails. Not only did the landscape look different, so did the animals. Rummaging around in the shallow waters, occasionally poking...
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Ventastega curonica
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Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water. Read more
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Shark
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Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a "virgin birth" in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. This compelling new study will be published today i...
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Salmon
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One of nature's greatest mysteries may have been solved after scientists revealed a new theory on how salmon find their way home. Every year, 20 million of them leave Scottish rivers and travel thousands of miles to Norway and Greenland to feed. Remarkably, they then return to Scotland, often to wit...
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Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn Although worlds apart, the way fish learn could be closer to humans' way of thinking than previously believed, research suggests. A common species of fish which is found across Europe including the UK, called the nine-spined stickleback, could be t...
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The once secret life of a huge, recently discovered species of manta ray has been unveiled. Biologist Dr Andrea Marshall has discovered that the giant fish, which she first described as new to science last year, undertakes huge journeys. As well as making the longest migration known across the Indi...
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