Come face to face with an 11-foot oarfish at Birch Aquarium's newest exhibit, exploring the myths and mysteries of these rare deep-sea giants.

In a hard-to-reach cave of northeastern India, a “slender” river creature with “fleshy” lips tucked itself under a rock. A ...

The betta fish, commonly known as the Siamese fighting fish, is one of the most common fish pets in the world, coming second only to the goldfish. It is usually quite easy to differentiate between the ...

The ventral fins of a male are forked and frayed compared to those that females possess. The ventral fins of these fish are also referred to as feelers. They’re small stringy appendages that don’t ...

Previously, it was unknown how these “fishing rods” evolved or how the fish controlled ... do not have fins, our forelimbs and hindlimbs are similar to the pectoral and ventral fins in the ...

Behold the frogfish. This bizarre creature really is a fish, despite its bullfrog face, pectoral fins that look like webbed feet, and a froglike mouth that snaps up unsuspecting prey. But the way ...

(Actually, ventral fins are better.) The dorsal’s real function has to do with a phenomenon that most of us have never experienced and many have never heard of—rudder lock. From the pilot’s ...

The ill-fated prey fish are deceived into mistaking the eska for a meal ... our forelimbs and hindlimbs are similar to the pectoral and ventral fins in the light of their distribution in the spinal ...

Interestingly, however, those neurons are completely separate from the ones which issue commands to the fish’s other three dorsal fins, located in the lower side of its ventral horn, called the ...

which they named "fishing motor neurons," and compared them with those of the other dorsal fins. To study this area, the researchers used tracer injections. Fish rely on the ventral horn of their ...