fishes

Mansions of the super rich dot the shores of Palm Beach. Some form landmarks for dive boat captains. Sites are named for famous places like Bath and Tennis about a ...

After traveling the Pacific Ocean for years, sockeye salmon find their way home to their birthplaces using the ...

Even while growing inside their egg cases, some embryonic sharks keep very still when predators are nearby to ...

Thorny seahorses, Hippocampus histrix, inhabit sandy and reef substrates in the Western Pacific.

The painted frogfish, Antennarius pictus, is also known as the painted anglerfish because it uses a lure to ...

Leaf scorpionfish are found in various parts of the world, including the tropical Indo-Pacific and the Red Sea.

Bargibanti pygmy seahorses, Hippocampus bargibanti, are typically grey with red tubercles, but orange variations are commonly found at ...

Razorfish, Aeoliscus strigatus, inhabit seagrass beds and coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific, and spend their whole lives in ...

Migration of juvenile reef fish from coastal seagrass beds and mangroves to coral reefs is much more complex ...

My all-time favorite fish is fresh, wild-caught Alaska salmon. Granted, it can be on the pricey side, especially ...

The radial filefish, Acreichthys radiatus, is also known as the flower-coral leatherjacket, and is widespread in the Indo-Pacific ...

The surprising discovery of a fossil fish with a multi-segmented backbone has contradicted long-held beliefs that this type ...

A tiny “living,” swimming robot that could be used to detect diseases in the human body is being ...

Wild salmon are valued as a sustainable seafood option for humans, but can we consider how much salmon ...

Some schooling fish have an unusual way of warning others of predation—when they are injured, they release something ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded an incidence of unexpected association between the mimic octopus and the ...

The common names of Synchiropus splendidus—the mandarinfish, green mandarin, or mandarin dragonet—allude to the vibrant hues painting its ...

Watch this video of a young rockmover wrasse tucking itself in for the night.

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In Indiana, mercury levels from fish in local water samples yield levels too high for human and animal ...

Although the area has been well studied and fished, scientists have discovered two new species of pancake batfish ...

Electric fish generate an electric field around their bodies and detect the distortions in the field that nearby ...

Increased fish and fish oil consumption may be causing more environmental and social harm than good.

Since ancient times mankind has recorded several strange sightings of animals—frogs, fish, or insects—that fall from the skies.