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The Aral Sea is in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is largely shallow with many lagoons and islands and was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water. Today, it is the eighth largest, and one of our greatest ecological disasters. Photo Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki Most of us have heard stories of some unsuspecting child or fisherman happening upon a frog that seems completely healthy, except for the fact that it has no legs or an extra eye. At one time, these stories were deemed as oddities or unusual, freak occurrences. Now, however, malformed frogs are [...] Photo Credit: NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory On November 7, 2006, Steve Pothoven and his fellow fisheries biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spotted the latest invader of the North American Great Lakes. The invader is Hemimysis anomala, a half-inch long, bright orange shrimp native to the Black and Caspian Seas. When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...] Introduced to the Great Lakes via the Welland Canal in 1921, these primitive invertebrates, sometimes called “eel-suckers,” have become endemic in the Great Lakes, including Indiana’s portion of Lake Michigan. Although often confused with eels because of their long, slender bodies, sea lampreys are not eels. Eels are Audrey Hepburn compared to lampreys. Instead of [...] |
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