Secret Lives of Amazonian Fishes Revealed by Chemicals Stored in Their Ear-Stones
SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryFish species that are both economically and ecologically important in South America live mysterious lives. A new study reports on the use of chemical analysis of ear-stones or “otoliths” as a way to tease out a fish’s life story, potentially revealing its migratory routes and the environments it encountered in its travels.