Tip of the ‘fillet ‘o fish’ to Gigits for spotting this one. Browsing through the BBC’s website, I noticed an article about Gordon Brown rushing to a fishmongers, after the owner’s wife challenged him about the lack of help for small businesses, during a phone-in show on local radio. You […]

The Eye seems to have taken a decidedly fishy turn today and I seek to compound it even further by revealing that a new method for analysing the interior of fossils has shown that millimetre-long mussel-like crustaceans called ostracods used giant sperm to mate. Sperm of modern ostracods can reach […]

Have you considered that you might get mad cow disease from fish? A new report suggests… “… farmed fish could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease–commonly known as mad cow disease–if they are fed by products rendered from cows. The scientists urge government regulators to ban feeding cow meat or bone meal […]