Scientists have been looking for new ways to treat cancer for years now. Newly developed shape-shifting robots could provide a new avenue for treatment. The new robots are shaped like fish and can ...

McDonald's is famous for its burgers (as well as fries and stellar Coca-Cola), but it pioneered the fast food fish sandwich, ...

Note to editors: Multimedia, including photos, can be found via Dropbox (password: fishery). A simple body-shape analysis can reveal what part of the ocean a fish came from, according to a new study ...

When fish or tiny, shrimp-like krill get together, it appears they follow the same set of "rules." According to a new study, shoals of fish and swarms of krill hang out in groups that take on the same ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Segmented hinges in the long, thin bones of fish fins are critical to the incredible mechanical properties of fins, and this design ...

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Love is blind, and such was the case in the Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water. A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working at a government lab in the 1960s falls for an amphibian creature kept ...

Guillermo del Toro's romantic fantasy required a creature who would make the movie's heroine swoon, so bringing him to life called for a specially designed suit, human-like makeup effects and computer ...

"The eyes are very important to him, more than the words," says producer J. Miles Dale of how Guillermo del Toro cast the actors for his tale of how "a cleaning Lady and a fish-man" fall in love. By ...

A simple body-shape analysis can reveal what part of the ocean a fish came from, according to a new study from scientists working to develop better tools for managing small-scale fisheries. The ...

Be they anchovies, sardines, or krill, schools of sea critters all take the same unusual shape, new research shows. That shape, resembling a "multifaceted lozenge," results from a competing drive by ...