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  • Greenly Glowing GMO Guppies { Zebrafish }

    • 27 Apr 2012
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    • April 27 2012 Fish GMO's Luminescent Pollution
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    Genetically engineered fish that glow green from the inside out is helping illuminate what pollutants do inside the body.
    via news.nationalgeographic.com

     

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  • Penetrating Piscine Patterns

    • 8 Feb 2012
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    • Artwork Exhibit February 08 2012 Fish X-Rays
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    A viper moray eel has a second set of jaws in its throat, and preys on coral reefs.
    X-Rays Reveal What's Beneath Fishes' Scales
    more via scientificamerican.com
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  • Parrotfish, Great Barrier Reef

    • 25 Jul 2011
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    • 24July11 Fish Great Barrier Reef Rolling Stones humor
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    Photograph by David Doubilet

    "The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock. Though sometimes destructive to individual corals, the fish's efforts are mostly beneficial. Without them, algal growth could smother the reef. Scarus frenatus

    via photography.nationalgeographic.com

     

     

    Mick Jagger’s lips and tongue will forever be immortalized on the walls of a museum. According to cnn.com, a London museum announced Tuesday that it has bought the original artwork for The Rolling Stones’ logo: a lips and mouth modeled after the lead singers.

    The logo was designed by John Pashe in 1970, after Pashe met Jagger and was taken aback by the singers lips and mouth and was first used on the band’s Sticky Fingers album. London’s Victoria and Albert Museum bought the work at an American auction for $92,500. The head of the exhibitions for the museum’s theater and performance collections said the lips have become “arguably the world’s most famous rock logo.”

    Pashe, who designed the logo as an art student, said the money from the sale would go to a rocking cause: sending his 11-year-old to private school.

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  • The Transparent "See" Creatures of Iori Tomita

    • 6 Jun 2011
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    • 05June11 Fish Marine Life Ocean Preservation Specimens art
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    "If you’re a fish, Iori Tomita can see right through you. Or at least he can after he’s worked you over in his lab. A lifelong fisherman who studied ichthyology as an undergrad, the Japanese artist uses marine life he receives from fellow fishermen to create what he calls New World Transparent Specimens—sea creatures that have been transformed into DayGlo shells of their former selves. He first saw a sample of a fish that had been turned transparent at a university lecture six years ago, and since then he has used the same preservation technique to make thousands of hypercolored cadavers, which he sells at the Tokyu Hands department store."  
    via wired.com

     

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  • Millions of dead fish at King Harbor in Redondo Beach

    • 9 Mar 2011
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    • 09Mar11 Fish Natural Disasters
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    "Authorities in Redondo Beach are investigating what killed millions of fish over the last day at King Harbor Marina.
    Fish, including anchovies, sardines and mackerel were floating lifeless in Basins 1 and 2 of the north side of King Harbor Marina.
    "There’s basically fish everywhere you go in the harbor," said the harbor's assistant manager, Jason McMullin, who added that there were reports that a red tide may have driven the fish into the harbor in massive numbers where they died because of limited oxygen.
    Redondo Beach public works officials were dispatched to the harbor to investigate further but did not have immediate comment."
    via latimesblogs.latimes.com

     

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  • World’s Smallest Aquarium With Fish

    • 26 Feb 2011
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    • 26Feb11 Fish World Records
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    "This tiny waterworld was created by brilliant Russian craftsmen Anatoly and Stanislav Konenko. Its longer side is about 3 cm and it hosts several miniature zebrafishes."
    via englishrussia.com

     

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  • Feed the Fish

    • 20 Feb 2011
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    • 20Feb11 Diversions Fish Interactive miscellaneous
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  • The Iridescent Colors of the Hamlet Fish

    • 28 Aug 2010
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    • 8.28.10 Fish
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    via environmentalgraffiti.com

     

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  • Psychedelic Pisces

    • 21 Aug 2010
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    via petsfoto.com

     

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  • "City of Gonads" Discovered

    • 17 May 2010
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    • Discoveries Fish Ocean animals nature
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    via news.nationalgeographic.com

    It's just so completely different from anything we've ever seen before,"

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