This is just a quick post to say that the blog hasn't been abandoned, it was just on hiatus.

The smooth handfish was declared extinct by the IUCN earlier this year. But what does that mean for conservation as a whole?

Dolphins chase fish into empty shells, bringing them to the surface and draining the water to get the fish, as taught by their peers.

Scientists have found that Titanichthys, a 380 million year old armoured fish, used a feeding strategy similar to a modern basking shark.