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Lower Congo River

Evolution in the Deepest River in the World

New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
November 03, 2009 | By Kyle Dickman

Dogfish

Stopping Sharks by Blasting Their Senses

Chemist and businessman Eric Stroud develops shark repellents to protect sharks from being ensnared in commercial fisheries
July 17, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Lionfish invasion

Invasion of the Lionfish

Voracious, venomous lionfish are the first exotic species to invade coral reefs. Now divers, fishermen—and cooks—are fighting back
May 08, 2009 | By Anika Gupta

Juvenile tapetail

A Fish Tale

A curator discovers that whalefishes, bignose fishes and tapetails are all really the same kind of fish at different life stages
April 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Scrapped fishing boats in Fort Bragg

On California's Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon

For the first time there's no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.
October 2008 | By Abigail Tucker

Fall chum

For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue

For the Yup'ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world
October 01, 2008 | By Kim O’Donnel

great white attacks a seal decoy

Forget Jaws, Now it's . . . Brains!

Great white sharks are typecast, say experts. The creatures are socially sophisticated and, yes, smart
June 2008 | By Paul Raffaele

Sense and Sensitivity

Great whites have tiny brains but powerful sensory organs
June 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Most Americans get their mercury from tuna, which typically live in the open ocean. But new research has shown that tuna (caught off the coast of Maryland) sometimes feed near the shore before heading back out to sea.

Mystery at Sea

How mercury gets into tuna and other fish in the ocean has scientists searching from the coast to the floor
September 27, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

The native westslope cutthroat trout (named for the slash of red on its throat) is staging a comeback after decades of losing ground to its immigrant cousins in the Rocky Mountains.

Fish Story

Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists
August 2007 | By Robert M. Poole

Pallid sturgeons, which can reach six feet long and live 60 years, flourished for eons in murky American waters.

Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon

Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
March 2007 | By Sam Hooper Samuels

Some mostly solitary species (such as these whitetip reef sharks near Costa Rica) gather to feed or mate.

Shark

Recent attacks on people off the Florida coast are a tragic reminder of the animal's fierce nature. Yet scientists say the terrifying predator is itself in grave danger
August 2005 | By Steve Kemper

Invasion of the Snakeheads

The voracious "Frankenfish" has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon. But is the Asian import a monster—or the victim of monster hype?
February 2005 | By Helen Fields

Navy dolphin K-Dog sports a "pinger" device that allows him to be tracked underwater.

Uncle Sam's Dolphins

In the Iraq war, highly trained cetaceans helped U.S. forces clear mines in Umm Qasr's harbor
September 2003 | By William Gasperini

Canadian biologist Pierre DAmours surveys rivers

Lost at Sea

What's killing the great Atlantic salmon?
April 2002 | By Michael Parfit

Something's Fishy

Scientists are trying to fathom why Hawaii's fish population is declining
December 2001 | By Bernice Weuthrich

The Biggest One That Didn't Get Away

A real fish tale hangs on a monster marlin caught nearly a half-century ago
April 2000 | By Adele Conover

A Creek Defies the Odds

Thanks to 300 volunteers, steelhead are back again, despite highways, offices and a campus
December 1997 | By Edwin Kiester, Jr.


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