<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Researchers save wrong fish species : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>34672</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34672/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Researchers save wrong fish species]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study at the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates five of nine &quot;relic&quot; populations of what biologists had believed were greenback cutthroat trout actually were Colorado River cutthroat trout, a closely related subspecies...]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>131</score><crdate>9/5/2007 10:00:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-05T22:00:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81882</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81882/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant Prehistoric Fish Rebounding in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once plentiful in the river, the sturgeon population had dropped below 40,000, and scientists were unable to explain the die-offs of mostly female fish. That's when volunteers came together to save the sturgeon, spurring a robust recovery of the lower Fraser River population.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>192</score><crdate>11/14/2008 10:15:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-14T10:15:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73235</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73235/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man-sized grouper declared new species]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>336</score><crdate>8/22/2008 9:57:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-22T09:57:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42599</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42599/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The patter of tiny paws... meet the tiger cub whose species depends on his survival]]></title><description><![CDATA[He may be small but this little big cat has some huge hopes resting on him. Conservationists believe the tiny South China Tiger cub could help to save his species from extinction.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>300</score><crdate>11/27/2007 7:41:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-27T07:41:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59430</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59430/1/</url><title><![CDATA[No sex for all-girl fish species]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parthenogenesis or reproduction without males (all children are female clones of their mothers) generally is not a long-term solution for species. Problems seep into the DNA and they are unable to be fixed via mutations. One species of fish seems to have found a &quot;trick&quot; to allow them to thrive for 70,000, reproducing asexually.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>137</score><crdate>4/23/2008 11:26:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-23T11:26:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63113</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/63113/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ancient deep-sea coral reefs off southeastern US serve as underwater 'islands' in the Gulf stream]]></title><description><![CDATA[Largely unexplored deep-sea coral reefs, some perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old, off the coast of the southeastern U.S. are not only larger than expected but also home to large fish populations and many newly discovered and unusual species. Results from a series of expeditions to document these habitats and their associated marine life have revealed some surprising results.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>226</score><crdate>5/25/2008 11:00:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-25T23:00:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61416</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61416/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Species Of Fish Discovered That Would Rather Crawl Into Crevices Than Swim]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>288</score><crdate>5/11/2008 8:18:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-11T20:18:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27565</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27565/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Zanzibar fishermen land ancient fish]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>127</score><crdate>7/16/2007 8:56:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-16T08:56:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38976</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38976/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New 150 Million-year-old Crab Species Discovered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>158</score><crdate>10/20/2007 7:26:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-20T07:26:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14544</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/14544/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Goldfish Lives in a Working Deep Fryer!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brilliant (but obviously insane) Japanese chef created the Water Fryer, which is a fish bowl at the bottom of his deep fryer.  Very cool concept!<br/>updated link - now with video]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>90</score><crdate>3/29/2007 8:02:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-29T20:02:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33139</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33139/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Extinct fish returns after 80 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last Alouette River sockeye salmon were reported in 1931. But last Wednesday, 20 sockeye carcasses and six live fish were found at the foot of the dam by a BC Hydro employee.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>95</score><crdate>8/25/2007 10:23:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-25T22:23:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44401</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44401/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Ten Nastiest Fish of All Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chlamydoselachus anguineus, is a primitive shark species, of the family Chlamydoselachidae. The Southern African frilled shark is a proposed new species from the Southern African range. Thought to be extinct itself, it was only discovered in Japanese waters on January 21, 2007 a specimen was found alive off the coast of Japan near the Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo. The shark was captured but, being in poor health, died shortly afterwards.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>137</score><crdate>12/16/2007 3:16:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-16T15:16:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81887</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81887/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fish choose their leaders by consensus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just after Americans have headed to the polls to elect their next president, a new report reveals how one species of fish picks its leaders: Most of the time they reach a consensus to go for the more attractive of two candidates.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>354</score><crdate>11/14/2008 11:01:56 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-14T11:01:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18284</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18284/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Discoverers of Nunavut fish fossil hope to net more]]></title><description><![CDATA[American scientists who announced one of the most significant fossil finds in the Arctic have set their sights on the North again, in hopes of finding more discoveries that could further bridge the gap between fish and land animal.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>48</score><crdate>4/28/2007 8:46:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-28T08:46:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62071</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62071/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rapid, Dramatic 'Reverse Evolution' Documented In Tiny Fish Species]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evolution is supposed to inch forward over eons, but sometimes, at least in the case of a little fish called the threespine stickleback, the process can go in relative warp-speed reverse, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and published online ahead of print in the May 20 issue of Current Biology.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>255</score><crdate>5/16/2008 7:24:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-16T07:24:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14432</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/14432/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Impossibly Cool Fish Tank]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;I don't know how this fish tank works exactly, but from what I could understand, the tank on top that joins the adjacent tanks works as a vacuum. The result is that there are feeding holes in the side of the tank, and the water does not flow out. I could not wrap my mind around this technology, but it works.&quot;]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>124</score><crdate>3/28/2007 9:32:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-28T21:32:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79512</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79512/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Incredible Siamese twin fish conjoined at the stomach]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two conjoined Nile Tilapia fish, dubbed &quot;Siamese Twin&quot;, swim in a small aquarium in Bangkok. They are both eight months old and share part of the skin together. The bigger fish tends to protect the smaller one from harm while the smaller one looks for food at the bottom of the aquarium.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>400</score><crdate>10/15/2008 5:57:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-15T05:57:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76977</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/76977/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How To Save The Fish]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dramatic drop in fish number has been widely reported. Some even suggest that there won't be any fish to catch if the trend continues. Here is one method that some believe would solve this problem.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>111</score><crdate>9/20/2008 12:00:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-20T12:00:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18124</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18124/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Climate impacting on fish growth: CSRIO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Climate change is leading to bigger fish in shallow water, but they are growing slower at greater depths, CSIRO research in Tasmania suggests.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>4/27/2007 10:11:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-27T10:11:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78909</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/78909/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Fish in Act of Evolution ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fish species known as cichlids has been observed by scientists in the act of splitting into two distinct species in Lake Victoria, Africa&#8217;s largest lake and one of the world&#8217;s biggest fresh water bodies.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>274</score><crdate>10/7/2008 4:07:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-07T16:07:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20281</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/20281/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Confusion over fish farm feces accident]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to theage.com, Australis said the empty tank had been drained before the maintenance work and there was no fish faeces in the container. The company said also that no serious injuries were sustained by the four workers.<br/>Update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/19963/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">an earlier post</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>71</score><crdate>5/14/2007 10:18:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T10:18:36+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>