An international team of scientists recently led a detailed study of eastern rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida splendida, a freshwater species that is popular in the aquarium trade. Eastern ...

There’s a special bird at the Vancouver Aquarium that’s spreading festive cheer. Meet Cosmo. Like many of us, the blue-fronted Amazon parrot can’t help but sing along when Mariah Carey’s All I Want ...

The sound of the world’s largest parrot fish swimming toward him, says Douglas McCauley, is not some watery swish, swish. It’s crunch, crunch. “You can hear a school of them before you see it,” he ...

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With the dozens of species living in our coastal waters, it is easy to rely on fresh fish as a food source. But what if the fish population becomes scarce? Peter Houk, a professor at the University of ...