Aquarium Snail Links

Parasite-carrying snail affecting local fish, river

A Texas State professor is researching the effects of an unlikely predator in the San Marcos River. An aquatic snail from Asia carrying a parasitic flatworm is infecting fish in the San Marcos, Guadalupe and Comal Rivers — and it appears to be evolving.

Karachi Giant Whale Shark Found Dead In Arabian Sea (Photo)

Karachi Giant Whale Shark Image Credit: Akhtar Soomro A giant whale shark found by fishermen in the Arabian Sea was brought into a harbor in Karachi, Pakistan using several cranes, according to several international reports on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. The giant whale shark is reportedly unconscious for about 10 days. (Below is a video [...]

Seeing Super-Fast Animals

A high-speed video camera is a must for biologist Sheila Patek, of University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Patek studies the lesser-known speed demons of the animal kingdom. A trap-jaw ant can move at over 100mph and a mantis shrimp can accelerate with a g-force of 100,000 (the space shuttle accelerates at 3Gs).