Juvenile seals are sometimes encountered in waters around South Australia with injuries and/or diseases that require veterinary treatment. Two cases are reported where apparently stable animals died soon after being rescued due to quite disparate conditions. In Case 1 a juvenile male New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) was found unexpectedly dead in its enclosure. A necropsy examinati...

Smoking with liquid smoke is one of the alternative processing methods lower temperatures and expected to reduce protein amino acid damage. This study aimed determine effect different concentrations corncob on quality both chemical sensory smoked barracuda fish. The method used was smoking fish four smoke, namely 0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% at a temperature 40-50°C (1 hour), 50-60°C 70-80°C (2 hours). m...

The colonization of land by tetrapod ancestors is one of the major questions in the evolution of vertebrates. Despite intense molecular phylogenetic research on this problem during the last 15 years, there is, until now, no statistically supported answer to the question of whether coelacanths or lungfish are the closest living relatives of tetrapods. We determined DNA sequences of the nuclear-e...