Food Flight: Fish Hitch a Ride in Bird Guts
Fish can show up in remarkable places, like ponds disconnected from any other body of water or remote alpine lakes. Sure, sometimes they get Read More…
Plenty of fish in the stream
Earth is a blue planet, with less than a third of its surface rising above the oceans that dominate the globe. However, of all the water Read More…
Loud Noises! Motorboats Modify Minnow Behavior
The environment is flooded with the byproducts of human populations, be they chemical, physical, or visual. But among the most prevalent of Read More…
Flashback Friday: Attractive Acne?
What's with the bumps? Today's Flashback Friday gets up close and personal with the Sacramento splittail.
At first glance, the little raised Read More…
Betta Bots Decipher the Language of Love
Science fiction has long imagined a future in which robots, for better or worse, play a major role. The use of robots today, however, is Read More…
Photo Friday: Making the Leap
If Friday doesn't already have you jumping for joy, can we tell you how stoked we are that spring-run Chinook salmon have returned to Big Chico Read More…
Flashback Friday – An Efficient Exchange
Ever wondered which is our most popular story of all time? It's this post on countercurrent oxygen exchange in fish gills! Apparently, how Read More…
Flashback Friday: Technology and Taimen
World Wildlife Day is coming up this weekend, so today's Flashback Friday features a truly unique wildlife species: taimen, the world's largest Read More…
Coming of age on the river bottom
Juvenile Pacific lampreys, like the ones pictured above, endure a transition from immaturity to adulthood as equally awkward and trying as Read More…
San Joaquin Shad
We sometimes get asked whether American shad live in the San Joaquin River basin. The answer is – Yes! Although the American shad (Alosa Read More…