The ocean's depths harbor dangerous fish equipped with venom, sharp teeth, and electric shocks. Stonefish inject venom ...

The parasites are called trematodes. Two species of the flatworms were discovered in California’s freshwater fish, according ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

In 2012, a Google Earth satellite captured an image of a striking hill formation in Sudan resembling human lips, dubbed the ...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack ...

It’s almost automatic—if you notice a smudge when you look in ... with humans. But now, incredibly, new research suggests that the cleaner wrasse—a tiny, tropical reef fish—can recognize ...

Most are then sold as feed for farmed fish, poultry, and pigs, as food for pets, or to a lesser degree, direct human ... crunchers, like Birch and the folks at Rethink Priorities, look at the ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Despite their awkward appearance, molas are fantastic swimmers—by flapping their large dorsal and ventral fins, they can ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish ... it looks like it's out of The Terminator." ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious ...

One argument that critics of industrial aquaculture make is that the fishmeal and fish oil used to make the feed for popular carnivorous species like salmon ... and human rights advocates ...