Until now, it had generally been assumed that all animals breathe oxygen. According to Israeli scientists, however, that isn't the case – they've announced that a tiny relative of jellyfish and corals ...

A tiny salmon parasite has become the first animal proven to survive without oxygen, overturning long-held biology ...

A new paper in Biology Methods and Protocols finds that we can now distinguish wild from farmed salmon using deep learning, potentially greatly improving strategies for environmental protection.

During the annual salmon run last fall, University of Washington researchers pulled salmon DNA out of thin air and used it to ...

If a giant prehistoric salmon isn't scary enough for you, how about one with warthog-like tusks? According to a new study, Oncorhynchus rastrosus possessed just such appendages – even though the fish ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse assistant biology professor is helping toss a lifeline to endangered salmon in California. Ross Vander Vorste and researchers from the ...

Pesticides–all the insecticides, weed killers and fertilizers spread on yards and farms–aren’t the only problem contributing to the decline of the wild Pacific salmon. It’s the people who carelessly ...

Pink salmon, plus an occasional silver and red, congregate in a pool above the Auke Creek weir before spawning. The males will put on displays and fight with other males as part of the competition for ...

In telling the story of the salmon from its viewpoint, he has introduced the reader to the various aspects of salmon biology in a narrative form. His description of a large spring salmon making its ...

Once a luxury item, salmon is now among the most popular fish consumed in North America, Europe and Japan. Since 1980, production of farmed raised salmon has tripled, accounting for 70 percent of the ...