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The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

It started six years ago when Shaha Hashim began seeing posts across social media: Vulnerable and protected species were being fished throughout the atoll islands of the Maldives, and some were even…

Abstract. Insights into ecomorphology are enriched when investigating evolutionary correlations between ecologically and functionally important traits. How

By some accounts, in the Philippine reefs of the 1970s, large groupers appeared every 50 feet or so. Some seemed as large as Volkswagen Beetles. Around them were snappers, fusiliers, wrasses,…

The study of the Clupeomorpha Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 (herrings and allies) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Since the publication of the monographic work by Lance Gr...

Join a private tour of Jackson Park’s spring wildflowers with biologist Michael LaBarbera.

Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the comparative biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes. Apply by June 1, 2026, for full consideration. Click HERE for more information.  Lab...

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

Ponyfishes in the Family Leiognathidae uniquely possess a complex bioluminescent system with an esophageal light-producing organ containing bioluminescent bacterial symbionts, a reflective gas bladder...

Thoughts on the civic nature of higher education.

YouTube video by Senator Tina Smith

The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all”

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today rescinded a regulation that prohibited commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument boundaries. This action was...

In Memoriam

Fisheries biologists recently described a new species of barracudina found in U.S. waters in the North Atlantic. Although understudied, these small fish may play a big role in their ecosystems.