Husband who lost his wedding ring while holidaying on a remote island is surprised to learn a snorkeller spotted it around the body of a mullet fish – and his wife is desperate to get it back Suzie Quintal and husband Nathan lost wedding ring in Norfolk Island in January Local snorkeller Susan Prior found … Read more
Scientists have found a way to control the human brain using a protein lurking inside a creature known as ‘vampire fish’ that has lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. US scientists used a protein from a lamprey, which is an ancient lineage of jawless fish similar to eel, to turn off brain circuits … Read more
Now that’s a whopper! Six-year-old boy catches his first fish – and it’s as big as him Drayden Nelson was ice fishing with his family on the Kotzebue Sound in Alaska The six-year-old made his first catch while fishing through a hole in the ice His father Stephen helped Drayden land the giant fish which … Read more
It is an idea so horrifying that it sounds made up: A parasite which bites off its host’s tongue and then replaces it, living inside its mouth for the rest of its life. But in fact, the tongue-eating louse is real and lives inside the mouths of fish – one of which was discovered recently … Read more
Now that’s FRESH sushi! Japanese firm designs portable fish tanks for seafood lovers to take their dinner home alive A new device named the ‘Katsugyo bag’ is being developed by inventors in Japan The design features a transparent tube and temperature gauge to carry fish It is designed to show off extravagantly expensive seafood bought at … Read more
Now that’s FRESH sushi! Japanese firm designs portable fish tanks for seafood lovers to take their dinner home alive A new device named the ‘Katsugyo bag’ is being developed by inventors in Japan The design features a transparent tube and temperature gauge to carry fish It is designed to show off extravagantly expensive seafood bought at … Read more
From Medical Minefield to No Such Thing As A Fish, You Must Remember This and The Fall Of Rome, the best podcasts to listen to this week By Struan Robertson Published: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 Medical Minefield The Mail on Sunday’s health team, Barney Calman and Eve … Read more
Dani Harmer has teamed up with PETA to encourage the public to boycott SeaWorld. In a striking campaign image, the Tracy Beaker star, 32, donned a black swimsuit as she squeezed herself into a tiny fish tank to protest the captivity of orcas in cramped enclosures. Speaking of her own visit to the marine park … Read more
More than a hundred French fishermen blocked trucks carrying fish from the UK on Thursday night, in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they have dismissed as ‘a sham’. Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc’s fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a license. … Read more
‘Want your waters? Then keep your fish!’ French fishermen blockade lorries carrying UK fish amid fury over ‘sham’ Brexit fishing deal Over a hundred French fisherman readied on Thursday night to blockade lorries Protesters spent a night at a fish lorry checkpoint between Dunkirk and Calais No trucks from the UK turned up after drivers … Read more