To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal." Yes, fish have ear bones, and yes, people study them. And what researchers have discovered from decoding the messages ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Coal ash contamination is a public health threat across the United States. Coal ash refers to the toxic remains of coal burning in power plants. The chemicals in coal ash are known carcinogens and ...

Fish carry a trove of information about their life history and habitats inside their heads—more specifically, inside their ear bones. Now, Montana state biologists have used these flat, oval ...

We all have heard our share of fish tales, but did you know that how fish hear can tell a story of their lives? Truth be told, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National ...

Cassandra Brooks, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in the negotiating room when the Ross Sea in Antarctica became the world’s largest marine ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

With large eyes, razor-sharp teeth and a compact body built for hunting, Janjucetus dullardi is nothing like the gentle giants known today, but this newly discovered ancient whale is one of their ...

A new study shows that trace elements found in fish ear bones can be used as biogenic tracers to track coal ash contamination. Strontium isotope ratios in the otoliths of fish collected from two lakes ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have identified a way to estimate ancient seawater temperature by probing tiny bones in the ears of fish. Oceans cover three quarters of the Earth ...

An artist's reconstruction of the Weberian apparatus in a 67 million-year-old fossil fish. The Weberian structure (gold-colored bones at center) arose from a rib (shown in gray attached to several ...

To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal." Yes, fish have ear bones, and yes, people study them. And what researchers have discovered from decoding the messages ...