Bad News Fish Fans: A recent study of D.C. area restaurants and grocery stores revealed 87 percent of the establishments were misrepresenting one or more of their seafood offerings. The study was carried out at 674 retail locations, pretty much eliminating any chance of a “poor sample size” counter-argument, and has us wondering how we can teach an iPhone to sample our fish before we buy/eat it. source
An X-ray of a stingray, whose cartilage skeleton (similar to that of sharks) looks like one of those embryonic alien incubators from the opening scene of a horrific sci-fi movie.
(via Twisted Sifter)
Nobody show this to Ridley Scott. Thanks in advance.
We don’t consider this a protest. We consider this people smoking pot in the sunshine. This is a gathering of people engaging in an illegal activity.University of Colorado-Boulder spokesperson Bronson Hilliard • Totally being the heavy regarding a yearly 4/20 protest on the school’s campus. The protest is fitting with the school’s party-heavy reputation, which the school itself wants to shake. The solution? The school is using fish-based fertilizer in an attempt to replace the smells of marijuana — which were commonly a part of the protests — with a totally different kinda smell. Organizers have chosen to move the protest to an off-campus location.
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta … walk? Scientists have long known that the early ancestors of almost every four-limbed creature — from mammals to reptiles to birds, and so on — are fish that learned to breathe on land. But now scientists say that the African lungfish, using its “eel-like body and a pair of flimsy hind fins,” can walk/propel itself underwater, suggesting that walking isn’t merely an above-ground phenomenon. “This shows us — pardon the pun — the steps that are involved in the origin of walking,” said the University of Chicago’s pun-friendly researcher, Neil Shubin. Not that their walking abilities would be obvious to researchers based on appearances alone. ”Their fins seem like the furthest thing from walking appendages possible,” Shubin noted. source
A headline in desperate need of a friggin’ rewrite. The grammar of this one is weak. “Regulators steal fisherman of his 900-pound catch”? Perhaps it’d read better if it said “Regulators take away fisherman’s 900-pound catch”.
Hail Caesar! Experts pondering the fishy deaths of millions of anchovies found in a harbour near L.A.
Read about what may have caused their deaths here.
Check out photos of the fishy situation here.
(Photo credit: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)
That’s the coolest photo of mass creature death we’ve ever seen. Cool enough that we feel guilty for thinking it’s cool.
If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish.Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesperson Keith Stephens • Regarding the mysterious deaths of as many as hundreds of thousands of fish in the Arkansas River, which follows up the mysterious deaths of thousands of birds at the end of last week. So, we think we know which state Springfield is in, guys. source (via • follow)
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