At first glance, the blobfish, also known as a flathead sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus), looks like a pinkish, gelatinous blob with a droopy mouth and a sagging nose. It looks even worse when it is ...
Salem nature photographer and content creator Brian Stone was salmon fishing alone Sept. 17 near Newport when he met one of the ocean’s strangest animals: an ocean sunfish. With the boat’s engine ...
Ghost sharks (also called chimaeras) are already weird. They have special electrical-sensing pores for navigating the deep ...
Regular beachgoer Stefan Kiesbye, an English professor at Sonoma State University, wasn’t sure what he was seeing at Doran ...
How the hoodwinker got its name Nyegaard spent years chasing the hoodwinker sunfish before she located and named the fish. All cases of the big fish were found in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa ...
Scientists using new ways to eavesdrop on fish have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts in underwater recordings.