When you think of major scourges to our world fisheries, you probably think of overfishing, or bottom trawling, or pollution or climate change. But some new research from Kurt Ingeman of Oregon State ...

The deeper you go, the creepier fish become, and for some very good reasons. Total darkness begins a few hundred meters down, ...

In the dark depths of the ocean, where camouflage can be lifesaving, scientists have discovered the blackest fish ever documented. Researchers have found 16 species of so-called ultra-black fish, ...

A fish biologist and her team spotted a see-through fish in Alaskan waters recently. It’s a rarely-seen blotched snailfish. "Been hoping to see one of these in person for a long time! Blotched ...

There’s water all around them, but do fish ever drink it? The answer is yes depending on where the fish lives. Water gets into a fish’s body through osmosis, the process in which water diffuses across ...

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

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 surface ...