Dappled gold and silver with a dozen distinct black lines that stretched from gills to tail, it would have been a gorgeous ...

For over 150 years, a London museum drawer held a fossil that paleontologists walked past without a second glance. Now, armed with scanning technology that peers inside ancient bone, researchers have ...

Every year, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center compiles valuable information from more than 600,000 fish* collected by fishermen, scientists, and observers. These fish parts fit together like a ...

A tiny fish that lives only four to eight months is revealing that aging may unfold in distinct biological stages rather than ...

To eat tinned fish for innumerable days and nights in a row, as I have, is to undergo sensory overload. There’s the jiggly ...

Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, ranging from tiny gobies and zebrafish to gigantic tunas and whale sharks. They provide vital sustenance to billions of people worldwide via fisheries ...

Our oceans have become so depleted of wild fish stocks, and so polluted with industrial contaminants, that trying to figure out the fish that are both safe and sustainable can make your head spin.