Many fish appear to hang effortlessly in the water while they wait for prey, defend a nest or pause between bursts of activity. But our research shows that this quiet stillness is anything but ...

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We generally don't think of fish as being a vocal bunch – after all, anglers don't typically use "fish calls" to lure them in. According to a new study, however, approximately two-thirds of all fish ...

Feast of the Seven Fishes is a cute rom-com movie about an Italian family and a young man who seeks love after meeting a woman whom he likes but his disapproving grandmother and another man (read ...

Smithsonian Ichthyologist Matt Girard talks about how and why he studies archerfishes. Abigail Eisenstadt There’s a group of fishes that shoot water from their mouth to stun prey. Matt Girard, an ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

At my house, the first whiff of Christmas Eve was always frying fish. Or calamari to be exact, splattering all over the New Jersey kitchen of my childhood, my dad cheerily at the stove, my mother ...

Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago (the same one that led to the extinction of thousands of species of flora and fauna, ...

The Italian-centered Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes is a nod to the old in a place that is new. It’s complex and simple, strict and forgiving, as big or as small as you would ...