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Vásquez V.E. et al. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 2015

The aptly named shark is cloaked in black from head to tail and emits a faint blue glow.

Chris Barnhart, Missouri State University

Female Lampsilis mussels wiggle convincing fish-shaped lures that burst in a cloud of parasitic larvae when a predator strikes.

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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.

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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?

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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.

Theodore Pietsch, Ph.D. University of Washington

Most deep-sea anglerfish look like creatures from another world, but this new species takes things to a whole new depth of strangeness.

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.

The Mola mola—which looks like a prehistoric shark that lost a tail in an epic battle—might be the world's weirdest fish. Here are just a few reasons it's the most fascinating marine creature around.

Why do Catholics swap Big Macs for Filet-O-Fish during Lent? According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, the meat/fish divide boiled down to sex, simplicity, and farts.

While they might be bright red when they hit your dinner plate, crabs and lobsters are usually brown, olive-green or gray when alive and in the wild (at least in the mid-Atlantic U.S.; crustaceans farther south come in a variety of vibrant colors).

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This Weird Fish Swims Standing on its Head

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