Scientists Are Exploiting Sharks' "Sixth Sense" to Keep Them From Getting Caught
Sharks' sensitivity to electromagnetic fields could help steer them clear of fishing vessels.
Sharks' sensitivity to electromagnetic fields could help steer them clear of fishing vessels.
It wasn't the first time fish rain has fallen.
The stickleback may not look like much, but this little fish is quite the overachiever.
Scientists recently confirmed that an ancient order of fish called coelacanths have lungs.
Scientists just confirmed what local fishermen have known for years.
Sarcastic fringehead fish battle it out several times a day by interlocking their enormous mouths.
The salty fish sauce survived the centuries, and is still available for purchase today.
2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought.
Most deep-sea anglerfish look like creatures from another world, but this new species takes things to a whole new depth of strangeness.
If you ever find yourself in the Maldives laying on a gorgeous white sand beach, thank a parrotfish. They built that beach for you, though you might not like the way they did it.
Yes, and not just with their tongues.
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was a pioneer of cephalopod research, but her work has largely been forgotten.
The highly invasive climbing perch can live on land without water for days.
For his 1952 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' Ernest Hemingway based some qualities of his lead character on his own fishing boat captain.
The Mola mola—which looks like a prehistoric shark that lost a tail in an epic battle—might be the world's weirdest fish. Here are just a few reasons it's the most fascinating marine creature around.
When it comes to finding fishing bait, you don’t need to dig in your backyard for worms. You can plunder your pantry instead.
Why do Catholics swap Big Macs for Filet-O-Fish during Lent? According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, the meat/fish divide boiled down to sex, simplicity, and farts.
What’s so fishy about human anatomy? A lot! Just look at these gifts from our aquatic ancestors.
While they might be bright red when they hit your dinner plate, crabs and lobsters are usually brown, olive-green or gray when alive and in the wild (at least in the mid-Atlantic U.S.; crustaceans farther south come in a variety of vibrant colors).