In this photo provided by researcher Rui F. Oliveira, a zebrafish, bottom, is monitored to see its reaction to a video of another at a laboratory in Oeiras, Portugal in March 2023. (Rui F. Oliveira ...
Here's what hap-puns when you're fishing for laughs. With their vibrant colors, flippy fins, and aquariums festooned with faux castles and mermaids, fish live a pretty good life. And seeing them ...
Alexinomia is the newest addition to a growing list of widely misunderstood fears. Here's how it psychologically strains the ...
I can hear the eye roll but I explain nonetheless. “Sometimes you’re not sure if you should be spending more time fishing that little slot by the tree that holds a couple steelhead when the ...
Serving fish is often a winning move. This staple protein choice is flavorful, versatile, and widely loved, and there's a fish choice out there that can suit any taste, from mild white fish like cod ...
Tilapia, the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish (or fish in the Cichlidae family), are native to only the Middle East and Africa. They are now farm-raised in over 80 ...
Their sense of smell is their most prominent sense, and they can detect scents that humans cannot, such as pheromones and ...
This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.
This story is excerpted from THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, available April 9, 2024, from Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group. Grist thanks its sponsors.
Common sense doesn’t always prevail, but it sure is nice when it does. Such was the case Monday morning, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a news release saying it would not ...
Leaving aside the fun and fascinating question about whether time exists — even if we assume that time is a real entity — our own personal perceptions of the flow of time can slow, stretch, speed up, ...
WASHINGTON--Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests. It might have been deep-rooted in prehistoric animals that lived millions of years ago ...