Archiv der Kategorie: Fische

Snap-shots of a Live Foodchain – The Seagull that caught a Garfish with a Sprat in its Mouth

Publiziert am 18. November 2022 von Markus Bühler

We all know depictions of food chains and food webs from books or museums, which show how small herbivores or planctivores are eaten by larger predators which are again eaten by even larger predators. But it´s incredibly rare to see … Weiterlesen →

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Fossil treasures of Messel pit part I: Fish

Publiziert am 22. Mai 2020 von Markus Bühler

The Messel pit is one of the most spectacular fossil sites of the world. It gives us an incredible insight into a subtropical ecosystem from the Eocene, about 47 million years ago. The special conditions of this Lagerstätte did not … Weiterlesen →

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The rasping Mouth of Death

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2020 von Markus Bühler

I haven´t posted new stuff on the blog since quite some time, but not because I´m no more writing, but due to the amount of work which is going into some future blog articles. For that reason I was looking … Weiterlesen →

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Fishing for River Monsters in ancient Egypt

Publiziert am 9. September 2019 von Markus Bühler

I recently visited the Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto, a monumental museum about zoology, paleontology, history, archeology and ethnology. Among the many wonderful objects in the exhibition about ancient Egypt, one artifact caught my eye in particular. It was a … Weiterlesen →

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The Huchen – Salmonid King of the Danube

Publiziert am 25. November 2018 von Markus Bühler

If you are interested in unusual freshwater fish, you have possibly heard about the taimen (Hucho taimen), a very large predatory salmonid which lives in remote parts of Mongolia, Russia and some other areas of North Asia. This species was … Weiterlesen →

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When Giant Tunas roamed the Baltic Sea

Publiziert am 17. November 2018 von Markus Bühler

In terms of zoological diversity, the Baltic Sea is probably the most boring sea of the world. It has the lowest salinity of all seas and it is only connected with one other sea, the North Sea. As a result … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter ausgerottete Arten, Blogposts in English, Fische, Megafauna, Megafische | 2 Kommentare

A new model of Meyerasaurus – or how to bodypaint a plesiosaur

Publiziert am 12. September 2018 von Markus Bühler

Today I wanted to show you some photos of a life-sized model of Meyerasaurus, a rhomaleosaurid from the Toracian stage of the early Jurassic, whose fossils were found at Holzmaden. The model was made by my friends from kamyk.pl, a … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Evolution, Fische, Haie und andere Knorpelfische, Paläontologie, Skulpturen, Wale | 2 Kommentare

A King of Cods

Publiziert am 17. Juli 2018 von Markus Bühler

Today I want to show you a „Dorschkönig“ or „king of cods“ from the collection of the Zoological Museum Kiel: „King of cods“  was the Name given by fishermen to Atlantic cods (Gabus morhua) with a rare cranial malformation of … Weiterlesen →

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Photo of the Day: Chiemsee Pike

Publiziert am 20. Februar 2018 von Markus Bühler

Pikes have always been among my favourite native European freshwater fishes. Their taxonomy has  become much more complex in recent years, when two additional European species were described, so that Esox lucius is no more the only of its kind … Weiterlesen →

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The Monster Trout of Königssee

Publiziert am 5. August 2017 von Markus Bühler

I recently visited Königssee, an alpine lake which is part of Berchtesgaden National Park. This area is without a doubt one of the most striking landscapes of Germany. It is located in the very southeast of the country, quite close … Weiterlesen →

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