"It is a deep-water fish that spends time floating vertically in the water column to camouflage itself, trailing the elaborate red first spines of its dorsal fin and pelvic fins." The man in the ...

The typical dorsal fin is a triangular-shaped piece of skin wrapped around muscles and bony spines or rays that sits on a ...

The fish has a “body and head bright orange, with irregular blackish blotches on cheek,” researchers said, and the membranes of the fins are more yellowish. Spines hold the dorsal fin up from ...

Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature with “canine-like” teeth swam around the coral reef.

Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from escaping ... these fishes' paired lobe fins are supported by the same basic bones as your arms and legs.

DESCRIPTION: Threespine sticklebacks average about two inches in length, with three spines in front of the dorsal fin and no bony plates on their ... LIFE CYCLE: Most of these fish live for about a ...

A swift, fierce fish with spiny fins whose spiny mouth can pierce the current when it swims at full speed. Its capabilities have earned it the nicknames "The Cutter" and "Hard-To-Get." ...

“Even these spines from this really odd, derived group of fishes, the pufferfish, still use the same set of genes that makes hair, feathers, fish scales, and shark dermal denticles.” Pufferfish belong ...

The fish were found in “shallow coral and rocky ... The new species was identified by its scales, skeleton, spines, teeth, fin shape and other subtle physical features, the study said.