We are moving into the summer season and yet winter keeps seeping into my thoughts. A strange thing occurred during the winter of 2022-23 and into this spring. An odd-looking fish has cropped up off ...

Last summer, I wrote about a very interesting fish, showing up in the Gulf of Maine and promised an update. Well, here it is. We nicknamed it a “coddock” due to its strange shape and coloration. It ...

The blind side of a Remo flounder's head as it was being dissected Paulo Presti When ichthyologist Paulo Presti, a graduate student at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, found a jar containing a ...

Pretend for a moment, Barthelat explained, that fish fins are made up entirely of collagen. They could bend easily, but wouldn't give fish much traction in the water because hydrodynamic forces would ...