Are 15% Of Aquarium Fishes Collected With Cyanide?
A newly published study is out, and it offers some sobering news—15% of the fishes which enter the aquarium trade may be collected with the use of cyanide. The... Read more.
Goblet Worms, A Bizarre New Coral Symbiont
An entirely novel relationship has just been discovered between a soft coral and one of the world’s most obscure invertebrates, the humble Goblet Worm. These little-known... Read more.
Spectacularly Rare Megamouth Shark Filmed On A Coral Reef
https://www.facebook.com/TheDiversUnion/videos/1810273215654270/ The Megamouth Shark (Megachasma pelagios) is one of the ocean’s most enigmatic giants.... Read more.
The Tripletail Is A Very Odd Aquarium Fish
There’s a very good chance that, unless you are a fisherman or a marine biologist, you have likely never heard of the Tripletail. But while it may be a decidedly... Read more.
Remarkable New SWIMMING Tube Anemone Discovered In Dramatic Fashion
NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer is off probing the depths around Johnston Atoll in the Central Pacific, and, if you happened to be watching their live feed last Friday,... Read more.
A New Fish Tree Of Life
There are somewhere around 33,000 species of fish known to science, but our system for classifying this immense biodiversity is in a constant state of flux. For... Read more.
500 Years Of Antique Aquatic Art… For Sale
Over the years, I’ve written about several important names in the history of ichthyology. Some were enthusiastic amateur naturalists, like the early pioneers Albertus... Read more.
Will We Finally See Pseudanthias fucinus?
The Okeanos Explorer is on its way to Johnston Atoll to conduct another surveying expedition, and, with any luck, we might at long last get our first real glimpse... Read more.
Top Ten Trimma
Gobies are by far the most diverse group of reef-associated fish; however, only a small number of species ever find their way into the aquarium trade. This is particularly... Read more.
World’s Rarest & Ugliest Butterflyfish Spotted
The Oblique Butterflyfish (Prognathodes obliquus) is, scientifically speaking, an embarrassment. The brown and white vestment of this meagre creature, devoid of... Read more.