Cutthroat Trout Cross-Breeds to Survive

Is this the end of Montana's famed cutthroat trout in the face of invasive rainbow trout, stream temperature rise and flow changes?

LINK (via: Scientific American)

Sailfish is lethal d'Artagnan of the deep

Blink and you'll miss it. In fact, you'll miss it even if you don't blink: the Atlantic sailfish can kill so fast, its hunting strategy is briefly invisible to the naked eye. Only through high-speed video footage was the fish revealed to perform swordplay with its bill that would put even the most skilled swordsman to shame.

LINK (via: Zoologger)

Rainbow trout genome sequenced

Using fish bred at Washington State University, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic profile of the rainbow trout.

LINK (via:Phys.Org)

It just goes to show that even when you are at the top of the food chain, you’re never really at the top of the food chain…

The horrifying part is that the shark was almost certainly alive as the eels made their way into its flesh and began to consume its life blood from the inside.  It would have been a long, slow and nasty way to go out.

LINK (via:Deep Sea News)

How Fish Gills Work

Today I found out how fish gills work.

Bonus Fact: At approximately 32,000 species, fish exhibit greater species diversity then any other class of vertebrates.

BP Gulf Oil Disaster Causing Widespread Deformities in Fish

Surprise, surprise, surprise.....

Crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster causes severe defects in the developing hearts of bluefin and yellowfin tunas, according to a new study by a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and academic scientists.

LINK (via: Ecowatch)