Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack ...

It's an unsettling image that seems more suited to a conversation about demonology than one about marine biology. An armor-studded fish skeleton, its empty eye sockets fixed upon observers with a ...

Spiny dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthias) are longtime residents of our coastal waters and, for many months of the year, one of the most available fish in the sea, and yet local anglers almost never ...

Dozens of spiny water fleas are entangled on a fishing line. The animals, which are smaller than a fingernail and invasive in the Northeast, are often transported between water bodies on fishing ...

These fish may seem like they fly, but they’re actually noisy grunters YOU KNOW WHAT would suck? If a wizard said he knew a magic spell that could give you wings, and you’re like, “Okay!” But you didn ...

Many fish species evolved parts of their fins into sharp, spiny, needle-like elements -- called fin spines -- that function to protect the fish against predators. Such spines have evolved ...