Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small crustaceans and fishes,” study co-author T. T. Ajith Kumar told McClatchy News via ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

Box jellyfish is one of the world’s deadliest animals in the ocean thanks to a venom containing toxins that strike at the heart, nervous system and even skin cells of anyone unlucky enough to touch ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million ...

A fossil discovered near Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia, has offered researchers a detailed look into themelanosomes ...

For decades, scientists were baffled by why thorny skates in the North Atlantic came in two distinct sizes. Despite extensive ...