The U.S. government is mounting an emergency response in an effort to save a unique and endangered fish found off the coast of Florida. The details are strange. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

If a giant hand were to suddenly appear in front of you with some sort of object, how would you react? This is the reality for the jawfish in this Instagram post by @pubity. The video shows a human ...

The ability of fish to feel pain has been a long-running debate in the scientific community. On one side, you have the ...

Pollutants affected fish over multiple generations, according to researchers. Pollution from the production of antidepressant medication is altering fish behavior and reproductive traits, highlighting ...

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences researchers release tagged juvenile salmon into a river. (Michael Bertram/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) (CN) — As Atlantic salmon face ...

Every year as part of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, thousands of onlookers clad in green cheer on a boat crew sprinkling orange powder into the Chicago River to turn it a festive shade.

Before squaring up for a fight, some fish check themselves out in the mirror to make sure they're big enough. This strange behavior was seen in bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), who ...

Fish appear to spank their children—and it makes their kids more cooperative in their duties, new research has found. These findings imply that this fish may have more advanced and complex social ...

University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant behavior after a change in the pecking order. In a ...

Exocoetid flying fish face one of nature’s most punishing survival puzzles: they launch themselves out of the ocean to dodge predators below, only to be snatched mid-air by seabirds above.

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