Experts say fish jump from their bowls for a variety of reasons (Reuters) Many fish owners will no doubt have had a problem with their pet's apparent deathwish - jumping out of their bowls and into ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

Approximately 380 million years ago a violent sea-dwelling predator terrorised the tropical lagoon habitat. For this fish was equipped with more than a terrifying array of razor-sharp teeth – the ...

At first glance, the fish you might see swimming through to waters of Lake Mweru might not look that different. To scientists studying life in the lake on the border between Zambia and the Democratic ...

To escape predators beneath the waves, a flying fish can shoot out of the water and glide long distances because its paired pectoral and pelvic fins, longer and more rigid than those of other fish, ...

A new study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions. New findings could explain biodiversity hotspots in ...

Scientists have traced the origin of fingers and toes to fish-like creatures that roamed the seas 380 million years ago, according to a new study. The findings, published in Nature, up-end the ...

Reef fish evolved the ability to feed by biting prey from surfaces relatively recently, a UC Davis study shows. The innovation has driven an explosion of evolution in reef fish. Image shows a rainbow ...

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A species of cave fish has been documented 'walking' up waterfalls like a lizard, in a discovery which could have "major" implications for our understanding of evolution. A team of researchers from ...