Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

A new fish species has emerged, but it does not hail from the realm of Mordor as its name suggests. The relationship between pacus and piranhas has been closely studied by researchers and while the ...

Not all creepy things go bump in the night -- some of them swim. While you might think of fish as harmless little dudes hanging out in your aquarium, there are some ...

Can we examine the teeth of living fish and other vertebrates in detail, repeatedly over time, without harming them? Previously, small animals often had to be euthanized to obtain precise information, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers on an expedition to the western Pacific Ocean near Japan and the Philippines recently discovered a brightly-colored ...

Off the coast of Kerala, India, a trawling net caught a new species of bottom-dweller. Getty Images/iStock Photo Off the coast of India, a trawling net pulled behind a boat captured a collection of ...