MassachusettsMercuryThe sediment, water, and three species of fish from 24 of Massachusetts' (relatively) least-impacted water bodies were sampled to determine the patterns of variation in edible tissue mercury concentrations and the relationships of these patterns to characteristics of the water, ...
The Sacred Cod is a four-foot, eleven-inch carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House- "a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth" (i.e....
This fish family contains about 115 species of fish, each with a unique pattern and color. There are 12 genera in total, but the one genus of Chaetodon contains some 90 species alone. Foureye Butterfly Fish: Native to the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to South America, this species has...
The bell (body) of theDeepstaria Enigmaticais fairly thin but can be be fairly large — around 2-feet across. The species is typically found onky in the water around Antarctic, or in the near-Antarctic seas — but they have o...
Prior to that, Govindarajan said, the researchers and collectors who were handling the jellies in Massachusetts made no reports of stings. Clinging jellyfish populations near Russia and Japan were known to cause severe sting reactions in people. But in some areas of the northeast Pacific, the cre...
Mangroves and nonvegetated habitats generally had more fish, invertebrates, and species than saltmarsh, but less than seagrass. Analyses of abundances of individual species generally showed an interaction between habitat and month indicating that the same patterns were not found through time in all ...
Additionally, it occurs in the common names of a few more distant species like the pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis). Within the kingdom Animalia, pompanos fall under the phylum Chordata. They also belong to the class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and the order Carangiformes (...
One giant species of jellyfish is called Hair Jelly. The largest ever recorded was found washed up in Massachusetts, USA, in 1870. It had tentacles that were more than 120 feet long–even longer than a blue whale! Consider Getting a Pet Jellyfish ...
The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker taught me everything I know about living in Massachusetts, and we re-listened to the first two novels in the series,The Godwulf Manuscript(1973) andGod Save the Child(1974), while we were driving around looking for fish. They hold up well. ...
Cunner fish in Nahant, Massachusetts looking for refuge in lower species of seaweed. Seen here is a mix of algae species, including both Dasysiphonia japonica (red seaweed in foreground) and Saccharina latissimi (golden blades in background). Credit: Brandon O’Brien/UNH ...