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For over two decades, a strange little marine creature puzzled biologist David Harasti. While diving off Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s, he noticed what looked like a scrap of drifting red algae.

Three-dimensional reconstructions of the rockhead poacher's insides hint that the fish may beat its cranial pit like a drum Louisiana State University The rockhead poacher is an odd fish whose name ...

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Researchers studied the male spotted ratfish's tooth-covered forehead appendage, which flares out to ward off rivals and grip onto females. Reading time 3 minutes Spotted ratfish are scaleless, rabbit ...

One fish, two fish, red fish — Mr. Snuffleupagus fish? A new species of ghost pipefish resembling the beloved star "Sesame Street" character — now officially named Solenostomus snuffleupagus — has ...

A mum walking along the beach with her toddler was stunned to find a fish with a mouthful of eerily human-like teeth and said she'd "never seen anything like it." Maleah Burrows, 31, encountered the ...

The fish, who live in pitch-black darkness, likely use their bioluminescent lures to find mates. Males then attach themselves to the females—and never let go. Many anglerfish, like the Diceratias ...

Ole Miss football coach and social-media instigator Lane Kiffin landed a big and bizarre-looking fish in Florida during the lead up to Independence Day. We know this because of Kiffin’s July 1 X post, ...

Most of the hundreds of "LabGerm" videos posted and reposted to social media in recent weeks start out the same way: A pair of gloved hands appears against a white backdrop as an AI-generated voice ...

A Red-lipped Batfish off the coast of the Galapagos Islands. The most distinctive feature of the fish are the bright-red lips.© Joe Dordo Brnobic/Shutterstock.com The ocean is full of some pretty ...