15 Fish With Amazing Talents
As these marvelous swimmers demonstrate, schools of fish definitely have the best talent shows.
As these marvelous swimmers demonstrate, schools of fish definitely have the best talent shows.
Small deep-water creatures are not so quiet when they travel.
The very artificial environment of a fish hatchery causes strong natural selection pressures.
Museum scientists later identified the specimen as a striated frogfish.
The aptly named shark is cloaked in black from head to tail and emits a faint blue glow.
Female Lampsilis mussels wiggle convincing fish-shaped lures that burst in a cloud of parasitic larvae when a predator strikes.
Off the east coast of Australia, some fish are doing something funny.
For starters, you shouldn't expect oysters from the Pacific and the Atlantic to taste the same.
How exactly did this ethereal-looking tropical fish go from tank to trouble?
Mangrove rivulus fish use dry land the same way we use swimming pools.
The cartoon hammerhead helps protect endangered sharks one smile at a time.
Ambon damselfish were able to identify the correct fish face with 75 percent accuracy.
We all know about the fish-zapping powers of the electric eel, but what about the platypus, the dolphin, or the spider?
Sharks' sensitivity to electromagnetic fields could help steer them clear of fishing vessels.
It wasn't the first time fish rain has fallen.
Scientists just confirmed what local fishermen have known for years.
Sarcastic fringehead fish battle it out several times a day by interlocking their enormous mouths.
The salty fish sauce survived the centuries, and is still available for purchase today.
2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought.
Most deep-sea anglerfish look like creatures from another world, but this new species takes things to a whole new depth of strangeness.
If you ever find yourself in the Maldives laying on a gorgeous white sand beach, thank a parrotfish. They built that beach for you, though you might not like the way they did it.
Yes, and not just with their tongues.
The highly invasive climbing perch can live on land without water for days.
For his 1952 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' Ernest Hemingway based some qualities of his lead character on his own fishing boat captain.