๐ Six super rare Mekong giant #catfish discovered in #Cambodia ๐ฐ๐ญ sparking hope for this critically #endangered #fish ๐ ๐ก๐ Conservationists urge action to protect their habitat. #BoycottPalmOil ๐ด๐ชโ ๏ธ๐คฎ๐ฅ #Boycott4Wildlife
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Learn how a rare Mekong catfish discovery in Cambodia sparks hope for the critically endangered river giant, why we must race to save themPalm Oil Detectives
Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore and people are falling ill too, as officials investigate possible sources of contamination.Derek Harrison (Inside Climate News)
The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, plants, fungi, and beyond.ScienceDaily
The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, plants, fungi, and beyond.ScienceDaily
No red blood cells? No problem. Icefish, meet the Asian noodlefish news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/โฆ
"Antarctic Icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, warm-water fish also lacks #hemoglobin and red blood cells. Like #icefish, its veins are filled with translucent white blood... #noodlefish adults retain juvenile features... In many other #fish, juveniles donโt need to make red blood cells because they absorb oxygen through their skin"
Like Antarctic icefish, the warm-water fish called the Asian noodlefishโs veins are filled with translucent white blood cells.Cynthia McCormick Hibbert (Northeastern Global News)
500,000 Taxa on iNaturalist! inaturalist.org/blog/103155-50โฆ
"thatโs 23% of all known species on Earth... #Birds stand out: nearly all species have been observed on #iNaturalist. 349 species (2%) are yet to be recorded... For #reptiles, #amphibians, & #mammals there are about 10x as many unobserved... Like birds, most unobserved species only remain in tropical regions. This is not the case for #fish, #plants, #invertebrates, & #fungi where there are still many left to observe in all parts of the globe"
We've reached an incredible milestone โ 500,000 unique taxa documented on iNaturalist! According to 2022 IUCN estimates, thatโs nearly a quarter (23%) of all known species on Earth.iNaturalist
This is a fish ladder in Switzerland. It allows fish to get around a dam.
Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former #shark-#poaching ship's new mission phys.org/news/2024-07-ecuador-โฆ
When #Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the #Galapagos in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached #fish including hammerhead and thresher #sharks. Today, the vessel has been repurposed for environmental patrols of those same waters, helping to hunt down predatory vessels of the kind it once was. It has also been renamed #Hualcopo for an Indigenous leader of centuries ago.
When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher sharks.Enrique ORTIZ (Phys.org)
Metabarcoding, metagenomics and other omics methods revolutionize the study and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. Come and join the 350 scientists and managers who will be discussing the use and development of these methods.
aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.frโฆ
#metabarcoding #metagenomics #fish #algae #protist #DNA #bioinformatic #pipeline #omics #MolecularEcology
Happy Easter! A seascape of fish and other critters at Richelieu Rock in the Andaman Sea. Your #sealife #photooftheday
#Easter #Sunday #fish #Sony #RichelieuRock #SonyAlpha #Nauticam #Inon
sea #ocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wild #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #water #climatechange #reef #photo #photography #pictureoftheday #picture #Indianocean #AndamanSea #Thailand @thesmilingseahorse
Daily Sketchbook Challenge No. 76
March - Sea Creatures
#art #artist #sketchbook #sketch #aestheticsketchbook #dailychallenge #dailysketch #sketchbookartist #drawing #drawdrawdraw #quickart #painting #illustration #peinture #ukartist
#pastel #watercolor #gouache #pencil #inkandwash #watercolour #watercolorart #watercolourillustration #pencildrawing #inkandwatercolour
#seacreatures #fish #seal #marinelife #sealife #naturelovers
Footage taken by a beachgoer shows a shark swimming in shallow waters at Navarre Beach, Florida. Swimmers can be seen rushing to the shore but no one was injured.Sky News
A critical factor in fisheries management is the protection of spawning sites for ecologically and economically important fish species. DNA barcoding (i.e.PeerJ
