This dull looking fish, possibly Torpedo panthera, belongs to a genus of fish, named not after the modern day torpedo weapon, but actually for the numbness/paralysis they can cause after they deliver an electric shock. The Latin ‘Torpidus’ means ‘paralyzed’. In fact, the [...]
If you’ve been following my posts here or on Facebook or YouTube, you may be aware that I’ve been pretty fortunate in terms of wild encounters with marine life while diving in New York in the last couple of years (Check out links at the end of this article). My latest encounter was a first for [...]
Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo is trying to figure out what may have caused a drop in oxygen that killed four Southern stingrays and 50 Cownose stingrays last Friday. Emergency notifications from the system that monitors oxygen and ozone levels went out around 1:45pm on Friday and a manager was [...]
