When fish is served in North India, it is usually the familiar names – Rohu, Katla and maybe Surmai if you are lucky. But ...

Imagine a layer of the ocean so teeming with life that, when first discovered, scientists mistook it for the seafloor. This ...

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter ...

Some fish change colors to blend in with their environment, but the stargazer fish has a different camouflaging technique. It ...

Kelsey James/NOAA Fisheries Gary Longo was looking for what he thought would be small genetic differences across a single species of small, ocean-dwelling fish: Pacific sardine. But as he examined ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ...

Some types of “walking” fish called sea robins can use their taste bud-covered legs to detect prey buried beneath the sandy covering of the seafloor.

And smaller fish, whether female or male, are less robust and less likely to make the full journey, especially up the full length of the nearly 2,000-mile Yukon River, she said. “It carries over ...