Local scientists warn that the proposed federal cuts to the United States Geological Survey’s Ecosystem Mission Area — a ...

While the anti-aging and life-extending effects of rapamycin, developed as an immunosuppressant, are attracting attention, ...

Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then ...

Farming fish in salty, alkaline waters is tough. New research finds a diet with more carbs and less protein helps Nile ...

The Oregon Health Authority issued a health advisory for Lake Billy Chinook in Jefferson County due to the presence of cyanotoxins.

A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the ...

This has previously led paleontologists to believe that Anatolepis was the first known fish in history ... the tubules looked much more like sensory organs called sensilla of arthropods, a ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing ... seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish that could detect changes in the surrounding water. The finding supports ...

This strategic approach allows easier access to critical organs, particularly the liver ... hunting technique of the world's largest fish to this repertoire." Researchers identified individual ...

Unlike tilapia, which are sold wholesome, Nile perch has an organ in its body that is apparently more valued than the fish itself. As a result every fish trader usually rushes to gut it before ...

A swim bladder is a gas-filled organ underneath the fish that regulates its buoyancy in water. Increased demand for the bladders has led to their illegal extraction from breeding and juvenile stocks, ...