Aquarium Fish Threatened With Extinction Just Months After Discovery
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Global demand for a tiny pet fish recently found in Myanmar is already raising concerns about the survival of the species.
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Cities are using bluegills to safeguard municipal water supplies. The fish react immediately to toxins in the water, so if the aquatic denizens start to flap their gills while swimming in tanks replenished constantly with reservoir water, a warning e-mail is triggered.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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U.S. scientists have found a new species of Antarctic fish that are about 13-inches long, thrive in the cold and have an interorbital pit with two openings.
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A wetland bird that eluded scientists for nearly 130 years has been rediscovered at a wastewater treatment plant in Thailand, Birdlife International announced Wednesday.
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By DAVID GREENWOOD  CONSERVATIONISTS are celebrating the end of a major operation to save rare fish found only in a North Wales lake from the jaws of its arch enemy.
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The discovery of intersex fish -- males with some female characteristics, including some carrying eggs -- in Washington's Potomac River is raising concerns about pollution from chemicals that can affect hormones.
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A white shark in captivity could offer new insights on the mysterious and feared creature.
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toothfish, dubbed the &quot;white gold&quot; of the sea, which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching. other threatened species,&quot; the US-based National Environment Trust (NET) said in a report on Thursday.
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A tiny fish that no one eats or cares about may tell researchers a lot about the health of Caribbean coral reefs and where to focus conservation efforts.
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There are more species of venomous fish&#151;some 1,200&#151;than all other venomous vertebrates combined, new research suggests.
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Two new whale sharks arrived at the world's largest aquarium on Friday, about four months after one of its prized sharks died.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from the trade that is threatening its future, conservation agencies have claimed.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 3--How the dangerous pathogen Myxobolus cerebralis got into Alaska's fisheries is something scientists may never know.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.