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July 17 2010

Goliath the Goldfish

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A goliath goldfish has been caught in Dorset and is thought to be the UK’s biggest specimen of the popular pet.

16-year-old Nick Richards was surprised when he caught the mammoth fish while on a recent fishing expedition. When he…

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Seahorses: Beautiful, complicated and under threat. The seahorse is almost a magical unicorn-like figure in the minds of aquarium owners, but what is not commonly known is that there are seahorses living naturally around UK shores. Worldwide, they are fighting…

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Researchers from the University of Leeds have been surprised how quickly a prototype robofish has sticklebacks fooled into following it’s movements by using a series of electromagnets underneath the tank the fish are kept in.

The robofish was created so…

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A psychic octopus in Germany is predicting England’s defeat at the hands of his countrymen in the 2010 World Cup.

Paul, the two-year-old octopus, is creating a stir at the Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium as he has correctly anticipated…

June 16 2010

Piranha haul

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You probably wouldn’t expect to find carnivorous fish feeding in Britain’s waterways, but that is exactly what Derek Plum discovered when he caught a piranha while out fishing at a pond in Folkestone recently.

The toothy fish, weighing in

June 11 2010

Fish-fed pedicure

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Well, it can’t get stranger than this.

Think of warm summer days, lazily dipping your feet into a cool-mirrored pond where fish tickle your toes delightfully. Think of them nibbling away at your calluses and dead skin to reveal the…

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A black Pacu, named Buttkiss – not his choice – is reportedly 43 years old. Weighing 20 pounds, Buttkiss arrived in New York as a wee nipper back in 1967.

Fed on 25 goldfish every other day (well he is…