http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news The latest news from below the surface Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:44:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fish raining down on you from the sky is rare, but fish raining down on you two nights in a row is just plain eldritch. The unlikely two-night fish rain occurred last week in a small Australian town called Lajamanu in the Northern Territory. On Thursday around 6 pm hundreds ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/515 Massive amounts of dead fish are covering the beaches of Brazil and roughly 80 tonnes (175 000 lbs) have been removed from the iconic Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. The mass death, which seems to have occurred at sea right before the weekend, remains unexplained. Over 100 people are currently ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/514 Newly investigated fossils show that a type of filter-feeding fishes that aren't closely related to today's whales (who, of course, are mammals and not fishes) roamed the oceans during the Mesozoic Era some 170 million years ago. Previously the whales were believed to have been the ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/513 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has declared March 8 through April 17 hunting season for Burmese pythons living on state lands in South Florida. If you wish to hunt pythons, you'll need a hunting license and you must also purchase a $26 management ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/512 The huge oarfish has been filmed by scientists operating a tiny submarine by remote. This may be the first time this fish is filmed, or even seen, in its natural environment. The species might have been caught on camera at a depth of 765 meters during ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/511 In south-east Asia and northern Australia, Archer fish can be seen spitting jets of water up to three meters to knock out insects and spiders and make them fall into the water. Archer fish does for instnace help control the populations of mosquitoes and flies. In ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/510 Residents of the Daluo village in China's Guangxi province have caught several weird looking yellow fishes in a cave lake located 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below ground. Experts working at the Bama County and Guangxi provincial aquatics institutes have been unable to indentify the fish, which sports a flat mouth shaped ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/508 A recent study has unveiled that the King demoiselle (Chrysiptera rex) is actually three different species that recently diverged from each other.  (picture) "This work, along with others, is starting to show that there is a lot more biodiversity in the oceans then we previously thought," said ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/507 A Swedish woman vacationing with her family in Langkawi, Malaysia was killed by a jellyfish while bathing off the coast of Pantai Cenang. Carina Löfgren was on her way back to the beach when she encountered the dangerous jellyfish just a few meters from the ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/506 If you’re into interior design, you have probably encountered the online tools that allow you to try different types of interior designs online without breaking a sweat. With a simple drag and click you can move around heavy sofas, rearrange book shelves and try out 54 ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/505