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Fish Sails From Japan To Washington On Unmanned Tsunami Boat

On an epic two-year journey across the Pacific, a bait box in a Japanese boat turned into an aquarium when five striped beakfish made it their home. The 6m fibreglass boat probably started off from Japan when the tsunami hit in March 2011.


Researchers Give This Creepy Cyborg Fish The Ability To Swim Forever

Researchers at Michigan State University have upgraded their autonomous swimming robo-fish named Grace — short for Gliding Robot ACE — with the ability to passively glide through the water, potentially letting it swim forever on a single charge.


Scientists Create Fish With Legs

Genetic researchers have been working for a long time to reproduce the mysterious evolutionary step that grew legs on fish. This change eventually moved life from water to land, resulting in a explosion of walking species that took over the Earth’s land and skies more than 300 million years ago.


Killer Catfish Have Figured Out How To Hunt Down Pigeons

In Southwestern France, a group of European catfish — which can get between one metre and 1.5 metres long — have taught themselves the art of fowl hunting to satisfy their discerning palettes.


These Incredibly Lifelike Robotic Fish Will Never Go Belly Up

Great news if your aquarium goes through fish faster than a fish ‘n’ chips restaurant. Takara Tomy has created these robotic alternatives that will swim around your tank in an incredibly lifelike fashion. But they never need to be fed, and more importantly, they will never dirty the tank.


No One Will Touch Your Coloured Pencils Stored In A Gutted Fish

Worried about your schoolyard chums pinching your coloured pencils (you know, those pre-touchscreen graphite writing implements) from your desk? By stashing them in a dead gutted mackerel you’re all but guaranteed no one’s going to lay a finger on them. And probably guaranteed a trip to the principal’s office too.


Fukushima Fish Soaked In Record Levels Of Radiation

During last year’s nuclear disaster, the deadly radiation inside Fukushima 1, became one with the surrounding environment, contaminating everything. Things aren’t getting any better. Record quantities of the deadly radioactive isotope caesium-137 have just been discovered in the fisheries around Fukushima.


Magic Aquatic Garden Turns Fish Crap Into Plant Food

Perfect for anyone who finds captive fish therapeutic but hates to clean their tank, a Japanese company has created this aquaponics system that connects a small vegetable garden to an aquarium filled with fish to recycle their poop.


Space Station’s New Aquarium Prepares Astronauts For A Puppy Some Day

Thanks to the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), astronauts aboard the International Space Station have some new pets to keep them company: a small school of Medaka fish that will be used to study the impacts of radiation, muscle atrophy and bone degradation in space.


This Beach Is Made From Dead Sardines

In Japan there’s a scary sight on a port in Isumi City of Chiba Prefecture. The ground is covered in nearly 200 tonnes of dead, rotting sardines, and the ocean has been stained red with their blood. It looks like a beach from hell.


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