Did you know that you can tell a white fish from an oily fish just by looking at them? At the fishmonger's, sometimes it is ...

Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

The study, published in the journal Biology Letters on Tuesday, found that some wild fish can use visual cues to identify ...

The Chel snakehead, also known as the Channa amphibeus, hadn’t had a recorded sighting since the last of the specimens was ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental ...

With more time, the fish may learn to pay attention to more subtle human features, such as hands or hair. According to the ...

Fish in the wild can tell humans apart! A study found that seabream recognize individual divers, following those who feed them while ignoring others. For years, scientific divers at a Mediterranean re ...

It is easy to believe that the black seadevil anglerfish, with its gaping maw of razor-like teeth, a bioluminescent rod sticking out of its head and lidless eyes used to scan the deepest, darkest ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

The southern stingrays were among the most plentiful fish, though it took some effort to see them because of their camouflage ...