At first glance, the blobfish, also known as a flathead sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus), looks like a pinkish, gelatinous blob with a droopy mouth and a sagging nose. It looks even worse when it is ...

Some of the strangest fish in the sea are closely related to dinner table favorites the tunas and mackerels, an international team of scientists has found. Some of the strangest fish in the sea are ...

My first view of an ocean sunfish was on a wall at a natural history museum during my freshman year in college. At first glance, I thought that someone had displayed half of a fish. The tail was ...

There is a fish I have encountered, but sadly don’t have a picture of my own, which ranks as perhaps the strangest fish of all. I’ve met some strange fish with equally strange names, such as the ...

Researchers detail the evolution of the world’s strangest fish, and describe how it could be a potentially powerful tool for scientists to study ocean life. [Narrator] You're looking at a brand new ...

I would say that this fish has a face that only a mother could love, but I'm not 100 percent sure it even has a mother. A ...

In her debut picture book, The Strangest Fish (Astra Young Readers, Sept.), award-winning fantasy author Katherine Arden (the Winternight trilogy and the Small Spaces Quartet series) follows a girl ...

The weird and mysterious seahorse just got its first genetic close-up. A team of international researchers has sequenced the full genome of a tiger tail seahorse. It is the first seahorse genome to be ...

Like a miniaturized Moby Dick, the pure-white fish wiggles slowly over the reef, ducking under corals and ascending, then descending again, up and down and all around. Its insides, though, are not ...