The U.S. government is mounting an emergency response in an effort to save a unique and endangered fish found off the coast of Florida. The details are strange. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. The world’s aquatic habitats are a heady brew of pollutants. An estimated 14 million tons of plastic enter the ocean as trash each year. Further inland, ...

Scientists have recently documented a behavior that looks almost comedic at first glance: an octopus suddenly reaching out ...

Some of the most frustrating days on the water happen when you know fish are there, conditions look right,... The post Why ...

Psychiatric medicines that are excreted by humans and find their way into waterways can change the behavior of fish in rivers and streams, scientists report in a new study. Researchers found that wild ...

Most anemonefishes are striped and the direction of their stripes — vertical or horizontal — correlate with their levels of territorial aggression A new study reveals that anemonefishes display ...

Evolutionary biologist Dr. Katie Peichel has spent much of her career studying two types of fish. One lives in the ocean, traversing through empty swathes over flat, open sand, where larger, predatory ...

Life on Earth is all about strategies for survival, with every organism developing behaviors and bodies that maximize chances of staying alive and reproducing while minimizing the likelihood of being ...

Biologists have characterized new, unknown photoreceptors from the bioluminescent flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron. The photoreceptors known as opsins allow the fish to detect light with a specific ...

Benzodiazepines are a highly effective group of pharmaceutical drugs that help millions of people cope with anxiety, insomnia, and panic disorders each year. These drugs work by binding to receptors ...