New species are being discovered at a faster rate than ever—more than 16,000 every year—and the trend shows no sign of ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...

University of Victoria biologists have discovered that fish can be identified by sound alone, finding that even closely related species produce distinct vocalizations — a breakthrough that could ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

One fish truly has a unique place in history, particularly because it has managed to exist on earth in some form since prehistoric times. We are referring to the sturgeon, a family of bony fish that ...

Whether a caught fish is released back into the water or removed for consumption depends on more than just the fish species ...