Fish may seem to just swim around without much thought or character. But new research reported in Ecology and Evolution has suggested that actually, fish have personality, which they exhibit in their ...

UAH scientists discovered a new fish species beneath Redstone Arsenal.

There’s something oddly calming about watching fish move through water. No notifications, no noise, no rush – just a small world inside glass, carrying on quietly. Maybe that’s why freshwater ...

Leaving aside the issue of exactly how much of their body they can see (some fish, like eels, can probably see quite a bit of ...

According to animal experimentation statistics, fish are the second most commonly used group of animals in research after mice. They play an important role in aquaculture and also serve as model ...

Have you ever looked at two circles of exactly the same size and sworn one was larger? If so, your eyes have been tricked by the Ebbinghaus illusion, a classic example of how context can shape what we ...

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For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service hasn’t yet issued findings on five imperiled fish and mollusk species in the Great Basin, ...

An invasive fish species known to Asia was recently caught in a Rhode Island pond.