More than 30,000 species inhabit Earth's oceans. Among them are species of fish familiar to all from menus and aquariums. However, if you are patient and peer long enough beneath the surface you can ...

A park visitor captured stunning footage of a rare species while on a routine walk through a small city in Canada. Situated near the U.S. border, Trail, British Columbia, isn't the most famous or ...

A team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered a new species of fish—a member of the eelpout family—that lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Costa ...

One fish truly has a unique place in history, particularly because it has managed to exist on earth in some form since prehistoric times. We are referring to the sturgeon, a family of bony fish that ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Some fish change colors to blend in with their environment, but the stargazer fish has a different camouflaging technique. It goes from swimming to burying itself in the sand at the bottom of the ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...

A new evaluation of the state of the world's oceans has revealed that the number of fish species at risk of extinction could be five times higher than previously expected. According to the new ...