Although Prosanta Chakrabarty grew up in Queens, he always loved nature. The wonder of the world's creatures inspired him to study biology, a field that illuminates which of Earth’s beings are related ...

I’ve discussed Jason Bradley a lot here in the past. Jason’s a friend and dive buddy. However, that is not why I keep posting his work here. If you want another ho-hum shot of some dolphins jumping or ...

He swam the world’s oceans, identified hundreds of new fish species and named 834 of them. By John Schwartz John E. Randall had wandered off again. He had been diving with family and friends in ...

An ichthyologist from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium received the ultimate honor recently, when a freshwater fish discovered on the African island nation of Madagascar was named ...

Garth Ivor Murphy, 78, Scripps Institution of Oceanography ichthyologist who obtained early moratoriums on the commercial fishing of Pacific sardines and mackerel, died Saturday in Woodland, Calif., ...

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John Randall had wandered off again. He had been diving with family and friends in Malaysia in 1998 when he disappeared. After a long search, the group spotted him walking back over a sandbar. One of ...

Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins. A University of Sydney taxonomist has built on ...