As climate change forces fish to migrate to cooler waters, culture and jobs are being left behind in their wake.

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest ...

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer ...

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine ...

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A shimmering, silver ribbon of fish on a California beach is enough to stop even seasoned locals in their tracks. When that ...

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine mechanism in bony fish that signals ovulation from the ovaries to the ...

Two new amphipod species with black-and-white coloring patterns like a giant panda have been found in the town of Shirahama, ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

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